Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts

[Florian Philipp]

Am 04.01.2012 11:52, schrieb Willie WY Wong:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:42:43PM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked:
>> On 01/04/12 00:20, Florian Philipp wrote:
>>> Am 03.01.2012 23:15, schrieb Joseph:
>>>> xpdf it complains about missing fonts
>>>> xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf Error: No display font for 'Courier'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Courier-Oblique'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Helvetica'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Bold'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-BoldOblique'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Oblique'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Symbol'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Times-Bold'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Times-BoldItalic'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Times-Italic'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'Times-Roman'
>>>> Error: No display font for 'ZapfDingbats'
>>>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>>>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>>>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>>>> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>>>>
>>>> Anybody knows how to install them?
> 
> Xpdf is looking for fonts in places that are strange:
> 
> 
> open("/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
> such file or directory)
> open("/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
> such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
> such file or directory)
> write(2, "Error: ", 7Error: )                  = 7
> write(2, "No display font for 'Courier-Bol"..., 34No display font for 
> 'Courier-Bold') = 34
> 
> 
> whereas the above font is actually in 
> 
> /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/
> 
> (I've been sort of just ignoring this warning, since no pdfs I've used 
> have had problem displaying, despite those errors.)
> 
> W

Not sure what causes these errors or if they are related to the current
issue at all. However, I guess the reason why it doesn't prevent most
PDFs from working is that since PDF-1.5, all fonts have to be included
in the PDF itself. Previously, some standard fonts could be assumed to
be present on the PC.

By the way: Does the issue happen with other readers as well?

Regards,
Florian Philipp

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