Bug 42161 – CJK patch for xpdf-3.00

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2004-02-19 10:22:32 UTC]

acura([e-mail]) provided a patch which fixed the CJK problem
of xpdf 3.0. The original patch can be downloaded from
http://61.153.200.30/lucida/xpdf-final.diff.gz

The attachments are the modified ebuild and the patch.

After emerge it, you should take the following actions to make it work.

1. add the following sentence to the ~/.Xdefaults
xpdf*.fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1;hanzigbk12st:
Replace hanzigbk12st with corresponding local font.
Then use `` xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults '' to merge it.

2. Add the following sentence to ~/.xpdfrc or /etc/xpdfrc
textEncoding        GBK
Also you should replace GBK with your locale.

3. Set suitable TTF font in ~/.xpdfrc or /etc/xpdfrc. Such as
displayCIDFontTT Adobe-GB1 /usr/share/fonts/ttf/zh_CN/gbsn00lp.ttf

[Comment 1 Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2004-02-19 10:24:18 UTC]

Created attachment 25932 [details]
modified ebuild

[Comment 2 Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2004-02-19 10:24:59 UTC]

Created attachment 25933 [details, diff]
CJK patch

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-02-20 05:25:55 UTC]

does this patch replace all the xpdf-lang ebuids?

[Comment 4 Ming Zhao (RETIRED) 2004-02-20 12:07:13 UTC]

No, these ebuils are still needed. Sorry for ignoring them;-)

[Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-03-14 04:33:04 UTC]

sorry for taking so long, what does this patch do then exactly?

[Comment 6 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2004-03-14 04:56:13 UTC]

xpdf 3.0 supports only CID or OTF fonts, but CJK CID/OTF free fonts
aren't available atm. The patch enables TrueType fonts support.  xpdf
upstream applied the patch to the CVS tree a while ago, so it'll be
included in the next release of xpdf. (we need the patch until then)

[Comment 7 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-03-14 05:30:41 UTC]

ok, applied that patch :)

[Comment 8 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-10-24 06:22:32 UTC]

This patch causes segfaults on certain pdf files, see bug #67799, maybe there is a newer version available?

[Comment 9 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-10-24 16:36:25 UTC]

i had to cut down the patch to the part the other distributions are using as well to avoid segfaults, see bug #67799

[Comment 10 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) 2004-10-30 06:32:28 UTC]

xpdfrc.1 says

displayCIDFontTT Adobe-Japan1 "/usr/share/fonts/kochi-substitute/kochi-gothic-subst.ttf"
displayCIDFontTT Adobe-CNS1 "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/zh_TW/bkai00mp.ttf"
displayCIDFontTT Adobe-GB1 "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/zh_CN/gkai00mp.ttf"
displayCIDFontTT Adobe-Korea1 "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/korean/baekmuk/batang.ttf"
displayCIDFontTT Unidocs-Korea1 "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/korean/baekmuk/batang.ttf"

but it is true only if >=media-fonts/kochi-substitute-20030809-r2,
<=media-fonts/arphicfonts-0.1-r1 and <=media-fonts/baekmuk-fonts-2.1-r1.
I wanted to modify xpdfrc.1 to make xpdf depend on >=media-fonts/arphicfonts-0.1-r2
and >=media-fonts/baekmuk-fonts-2.2 but ia64 blocks it.
I'll open a bug to ask ia64 team to stablise them. 

[Comment 11 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-03-15 12:58:32 UTC]

i think this one is fixed then.