xpdf - missing fonts

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Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:48 pm

When I open document with xpdf it complains about missing fonts

xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf 
Error: No display font for 'Courier'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font for 'Courier-Oblique'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-BoldOblique'
Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Oblique'
Error: No display font for 'Symbol'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Bold'
Error: No display font for 'Times-BoldItalic'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Italic'
Error: No display font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: No display font for 'ZapfDingbats'
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-efont-biwidth-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,        -gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-p-*-*-*,   -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,   -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-*,  -cronyx-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-koi8-r,          -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-*,               -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-*-*,               -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-p-*-*-*,                         -*-*-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,                         -*-*-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-efont-biwidth-medium-i-normal--24-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,-*-times-bold-i-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-*-times-bold-i-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*,-*-*-medium-i-normal--24-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-efont-biwidth-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-efont-biwidth-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,-*-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-*-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1,-*-*-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontSet
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

How to install them?

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:17 pm

Those fonts should be included in the 'corefonts' package.

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:23 pm

mark_alec wrote:Those fonts should be included in the 'corefonts' package.

Yes, they are but xpdf doesn't link to them correctly, xpdf should be looking for them in:
/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/

adding to xpdfrc helps

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displayFontT1 Times-Roman		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Italic		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Bold		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-BoldItalic		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica			/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-Oblique		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-Bold		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-BoldOblique	/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier			/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-Oblique		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-Bold		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-BoldOblique	/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Symbol			/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/s050000l.pfb
displayFontT1 ZapfDingbats		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/d050000l.pfb

But my flpsed doesn't scale the fonts correctly I don't know if there is any relation to it.

helio · Post by **helio** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 3:55 pm

I find this post very helpful. The only update worth mentioning is that as of now the displayFontT1 has to be replaced by fontFile in the xpdfrc file in order to make fonts work in xpdf.

Nonetheless, I still get the following warnings that I don't know how to get rid of:

Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-bold-i-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

Any suggestions?

Joseph_sys wrote:

mark_alec wrote:Those fonts should be included in the 'corefonts' package.

Yes, they are but xpdf doesn't link to them correctly, xpdf should be looking for them in:
/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/

adding to xpdfrc helps

Code: Select all

displayFontT1 Times-Roman		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Italic		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Bold		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-BoldItalic		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica			/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-Oblique		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-Bold		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-BoldOblique	/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier			/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-Oblique		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-Bold		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-BoldOblique	/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Symbol			/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/s050000l.pfb
displayFontT1 ZapfDingbats		/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/d050000l.pfb

But my flpsed doesn't scale the fonts correctly I don't know if there is any relation to it.

mv · Post by mv » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:55 pm

helio wrote:in the xpdfrc file in order to make fonts work in xpdf

I got a similar issue with qpdfview. Of course, I do not expect that writing xpdfrc will solve the problem for qpdfview.
The strange thing is that despite of the error messages everything seems to be displayed correctly, but OTOH maybe I just do not know how it should look like...