On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:52:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Florian Philipp
squawked:
> Am 04.01.2012 11:52, schrieb Willie WY Wong:
> > 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.)
>
> 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?
I have not tested many readers. But gv and epdfview (which are both
installed on my system) do not have this problem.
W
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