glfs/pst/ps/xpdf.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY xpdf-download-http "http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/xpdf/xpdf-3.00.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.00.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-md5sum        "95294cef3031dd68e65f331e8750b2c2">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-size          "534 KB">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-buildsize     "31.7 MB">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-time          "0.32 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="xpdf" xreflabel="Xpdf-&xpdf-version;">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="xpdf.html"?>
<title><application>Xpdf</application>-&xpdf-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="xpdf">
<primary sortas="a-Xpdf">Xpdf</primary></indexterm>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Xpdf</application></title>

<para><application>Xpdf</application> is a viewer for Adobe's free Portable 
Document Format (<acronym>PDF</acronym>) which is both fast and small and 
comes with some useful command-line utilities.</para>

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&xpdf-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&xpdf-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &xpdf-md5sum;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &xpdf-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
&xpdf-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&xpdf-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Required patch: <ulink 
url="ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.00pl1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Required patch: <ulink 
url="ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.00pl2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Required patch: <ulink 
url="ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-&xpdf-version;.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Required patch: <ulink 
url="&patch-root;/xpdf-&xpdf-version;-freetype_2.1.7_hack-2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>

<sect3><title><application>Xpdf</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para><xref linkend="lesstif"/></para>
</sect4>

<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="gs"/> or <xref linkend="espgs"/> (just the fonts), 
<ulink 
url="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/visual/ibiblio/libs/graphics/t1lib-5.0.2.tar.gz">
t1lib</ulink> 
and <ulink 
url="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper">libpaper</ulink>
</para></sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Xpdf</application></title>

<para>Install <application>Xpdf</application> by running the following 
commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>patch -d xpdf -Np0 -i ../../xpdf-3.00pl1.patch &amp;&amp;
patch -d xpdf -Np0 -i ../../xpdf-3.00pl2.patch &amp;&amp;
patch -d xpdf -Np0 -i ../../xpdf-&xpdf-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
patch -Np1 -i ../xpdf-&xpdf-version;-freetype_2.1.7_hack-2.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 &amp;&amp;
make</command></userinput></screen>

<para>Now, as the root user:</para>

<screen><userinput role='root'><command>make install</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation command explanations</title>

<para><option>--enable-a4-paper</option>: This switch must be
added to set <acronym>DIN</acronym> A4 as the standard paper format.</para> 

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Configuring <application>Xpdf</application></title>

<sect3 id="xpdf-config"><title>Config files</title>
<para><filename>/etc/xpdfrc</filename> and 
<filename>~/.xpdfrc</filename></para>
<indexterm zone="xpdf xpdf-config">
<primary sortas="e-AA.xpdfrc">~/.xpdfrc</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm zone="xpdf xpdf-config">
<primary sortas="e-etc-xpdfrc">/etc/xpdfrc</primary></indexterm>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>

<para>In the <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> directory you will 
find a sample <filename>xpdfrc</filename> that can be either copied to
<filename>~/.xpdfrc</filename> or taken as an example to write your own
configuration file. Below you'll find a condensed version of the file you 
may wish to build from.</para>

<screen><userinput># Example .xpdfrc
displayFontT1 Times-Roman           /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Italic          /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Bold            /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-BoldItalic      /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica             /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-Oblique     /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-Bold        /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-BoldOblique /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier               /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-Oblique       /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-Bold          /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-BoldOblique   /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Symbol                /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/s050000l.pfb
displayFontT1 ZapfDingbats          /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/d050000l.pfb

fontDir                 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

psFile                  "|lpr"
psPaperSize             letter
#psPaperSize             A4
textEOL                 unix

enableT1lib             yes
enableFreeType          yes
antialias               yes

urlCommand              "links -g %s"</userinput></screen>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

<seglistitem>
<seg>pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext and xpdf</seg>
<seg>None</seg>
<seg>None</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>

<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>

<varlistentry id="pdffonts">
<term><command>pdffonts</command></term>
<listitem><para>lists the fonts used in a <acronym>PDF</acronym> file along 
with various information for each font.</para>
<indexterm zone="xpdf pdffonts">
<primary sortas="b-pdffonts">pdffonts</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="pdfimages">
<term><command>pdfimages</command></term>
<listitem><para>saves images from a <acronym>PDF</acronym> file as 
<acronym>PPM</acronym>, <acronym>PBM</acronym>, or <acronym>JPEG</acronym> 
files.</para>
<indexterm zone="xpdf pdfimages">
<primary sortas="b-pdfimages">pdfimages</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="pdfinfo">
<term><command>pdfinfo</command></term>
<listitem><para>prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some 
other useful information) from a <acronym>PDF</acronym> file.</para>
<indexterm zone="xpdf pdfinfo">
<primary sortas="b-pdfinfo">pdfinfo</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="pdftoppm">
<term><command>pdftoppm</command></term>
<listitem><para>converts <acronym>PDF</acronym> files to 
<acronym>PBM</acronym>, <acronym>PGM</acronym> and <acronym>PPM</acronym>
formats.</para>
<indexterm zone="xpdf pdftoppm">
<primary sortas="b-pdftoppm">pdftoppm</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="pdftops">
<term><command>pdftops</command></term>
<listitem><para> converts <acronym>PDF</acronym> files to Postscript 
format.</para>
<indexterm zone="xpdf pdftops">
<primary sortas="b-pdftops">pdftops</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="pdftotext">
<term><command>pdftotext</command></term>
<listitem><para>parses <acronym>ASCII</acronym> text from 
<acronym>PDF</acronym> files.</para>
<indexterm zone="xpdf pdftotext">
<primary sortas="b-pdftotext">pdftotext</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="xpdf-prog">
<term><command>xpdf</command></term>
<listitem><para>displays files in <acronym>PDF</acronym> format.</para>
<indexterm zone="xpdf xpdf-prog">
<primary sortas="b-xpdf">xpdf</primary>
</indexterm></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>

</sect1>