Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:29:07 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:44:24 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> > Le Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:33:21AM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit :
> > >
> > > The reason of my question is that there are several pdf viewers in the
> > > repository based on poppler. One of them is evince which often crashes
> > > on large pdf files. In these cases xpdf was an
> > > old-and-slow-but-always-working solution.
> >
> > Dear Michael,
> >
> > I share the same worries: evince still does not manage to pick up japanese
> > fonts for some documents, while currently xpdf does. However, with the 3.02-3
> > update that you propose, it can not anymore…
>
> Hi,
>
> Note that the poppler-data package has a newer version of Adobe's
> Japanese cMap, which probably introduced this problem. Some things you
> may want to take a look at:
>
> 1. According to their NEWS file, some cMap resources were dropped in
> version 0.4; which may include stuff needed by your pdfs. You may want
> to try restoring those.
>
> 2. As another option, you may want to try replacing the cMap data
> in /usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Japan1 with that provided by the
> xpdf-japanese package.
>
> 3. Also, there is a (mostly empty) Adobe-Japan2 cMap there, which may
> be getting used by default, and that would probably be wrong.
>
> Anyway, this seems more like a bug in poppler-data and should be
> reported there.
Actually, it looks like this is already reported:
http://bugs.debian.org/495800
Perhaps some help is needed since the last activity there was almost
two years ago.
Best wishes,
Mike
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