Currently Acrobat Reader is at version 8.1 and the LINGUAS variable installs Korean, Japanese, Chinese etc. versions of the Reader itself but the Asian font packs are in a separate ebuild called media-fonts/acroread-asianfonts. These font packs are essential for viewing tech docs from various Korean, Japanese, etc. manufacturers because many times they are using the English characters embedded in a Korean, etc. font to write the English language documentation so that even though they are not written in hangul/kanjis/etc. but plain English alphabet they still cannot be displayed without these asian fonts. The asianfonts ebuild is currently at version 7.x which is officially claimed to be incompatible with Reader 8.x and indeed installs in a directory that is not appropriate for a Reader 8.x installation but only for a 7.x one. The acroread ebuild also does not depend on acroread-asianfonts in any way. I would like to propose that the two ebuilds should be merged and USE flags like "fonts_jp", "fonts_ko", etc. should be added to install these additional font packs as this would be more practical for the users and would force the maintainer of the acroread ebuild to always update the font pack references to versions compatible with the current Reader version. There is also an external font pack having Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, etc. fonts which could also be available for installation through portage. If this cannot be done, maybe adding a USE flag "asianfonts" to the acroread ebuild would be an alternative to pull in the acroread-asianfonts package as a dependency which would help users to realize that they might need it, and it should be kept updated with the Reader versions. Reproducible: Always
Do you have some working URL?
(In reply to comment #1) > Do you have some working URL? Maybe you mean a URL like this: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html From here I was able to download the following fontpacks (md5sum -b): aecf224011045271ff8eac0fbb50c725 *FontPack81_chs_i486-linux.tar.gz 72f6ed7b92ffc4797cb8d6d88e271b5e *FontPack81_cht_i486-linux.tar.gz 56d631775fb7ae3eb7e3247f8f1ca786 *FontPack81_jpn_i486-linux.tar.gz 5206b5344fb9d8b5a4cf3e133f588c7c *FontPack81_kor_i486-linux.tar.gz f916ae607eb755b56001c6af2374d462 *FontPack81_xtd_i486-linux.tar.gz
(In reply to comment #2) > > Do you have some working URL? Nah, not really... I meant *direct* URLs to the fonts tarballs.
Well... They aren't that hard to figure out from there... but here they are: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/8.x/8.1.2/misc/FontPack81_chs_i486-linux.tar.gz http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/8.x/8.1.2/misc/FontPack81_cht_i486-linux.tar.gz http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/8.x/8.1.2/misc/FontPack81_jpn_i486-linux.tar.gz http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/8.x/8.1.2/misc/FontPack81_kor_i486-linux.tar.gz http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/8.x/8.1.2/misc/FontPack81_xtd_i486-linux.tar.gz And these are having the following fonts (in the above order): Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Japanese Korean Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Eastern & Central European, Cyrillic, Greek
Linguas added, pull in media-fonts/acroread-asianfonts
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