Quoting Hideki Yamane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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.


I'm just uploading your package right now. Hope this will help a
little bit catching this issue.

Of course, solving it with free packages and software would be better.


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