Bug 4820 – New ebuild for xpdf which uses ghostscript T1 fonts and fixes missing manpage

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description José Fonseca 2002-07-10 13:29:30 UTC]

This is a new ebuild for xpdf which uses ghostscript T1 fonts which look much nicer, as advised in http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/problems.html#t1lib-base14 . This adds a dependency on app-text/ghostscript. It also fixes a bug in the current ebuild which misses the xpdfrc.5 manpage.

HINT: To have even nicer results add these lines to your  ~/.xpdfrc

 include /etc/xpdfrc
 t1libControl    high
 freetypeControl high


[Comment 1 José Fonseca 2002-07-10 13:35:27 UTC]

Created attachment 2125 [details]
xpdf-1.01-r1.ebuild

[Comment 2 José Fonseca 2002-07-10 13:35:56 UTC]

Created attachment 2126 [details, diff]
xpdf-1.01-r1.diff

[Comment 3 José Fonseca 2002-07-10 13:40:28 UTC]

Sorry about the first comment formatting. I'm testdriving galeon2 (which still
has some annoying bugs that prevent to use it for certain things such as
cut'n'paste!) plus every single other browser as an alternative (which seem to
have their fair share of bugs too!)...

[Comment 4 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2002-07-12 11:35:28 UTC]

Could you repaste your last line in your intial text?  Im having some trouble 
reading the text with the control characters in it. 

[Comment 5 José Fonseca 2002-07-12 12:06:25 UTC]

Ok. Here it is again:

This is a new ebuild for xpdf which uses ghostscript T1 fonts which look much nicer, as advised in http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/problems.html#t1lib-base14 . This adds a dependency on app-text/ghostscript. It also fixes a bug in the current ebuild which misses the xpdfrc.5 manpage.

HINT: To have even nicer results add these lines to your ~/.xpdfrc

        include         /etc/xpdfrc
        t1libControl    high
        freetypeControl high

[Comment 6 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2002-07-14 08:13:50 UTC]

Just commited it, thanks for the update!