Hi list, I'm worry about CJK Debian users will not be able to read PDF with poppler-data in default Debian Desktop environment.
Now, in etch, if you want to view Japanese PDF file, you'll install xpdf-japanese and cmap-adobe-japan1 and cmap-adobe-japan2 package, then launch evince (default GNOME PDF viewer) or something. But evince was changed. We need poppler package (depends on libpoppler-glib3) to view PDF files, and if you want to view Japanese PDF file, you also need to install poppler-data - but it is NOT in Debian yet. Yes, poppler-data is non-free one, but many PDF needs Adobe CMap to show CJK characters... so many non-English (especially CJK) Debian users are affected. If lenny is released in this condition, CJK Debian Desktop users cannot view PDF files by default (maybe they just googling and find any solutions for this, but it's clue). I hope our Debian users (at least over 2000, see default font in Debian Japanese Desktop in popcon, http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ttf-vlgothic) would feel good when they use Debian. How do we deal with this issue? Please let me know... And I deal with this by making local package and use it. It is ITPed (see #453172), but not uploaded yet. So, sponsors are welcome :) see http://bugs.debian.org/453172 and you can get it from mentors repository at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/p/poppler-data/poppler-data_0.2.0-1.dsc . Or Junichi Uekawa (dancer, you know pbuilder author) suggest other way to fix this issue. See http://bugs.debian.org/481134 He'll go to debconf8 (I cannot go), so please discuss him how to fix this issue. #O.T. I think that we should make new component like "spec" such as some specifications that is not need to modify, like RFC, Unicode or some character maping data, law documents, etc. -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
