Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#27576 new defect

xpdf issues "could'nt create a font for..."

Reported by: j.van_den_hoff@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.9.2
Keywords: Cc:
Port: xpdf

Description

xpdf issues these errors when viewing a document:

Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Helvetica'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Helvetica-Bold'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'ZapfDingbats'

helvetica actually is used in the document, but zapfdingbats is not AFAICS.

I activated the font definitions from the default xpdfrc in my .xpdfrc which defines the fonts to be find as follows:

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

but I don't see them in the specified location. maybe they are elsewhere but it does not work out of the box. some time ago (but not in 1.9.1) xpdf still did.

finally, for completeness, I see the following message on startup of xpdf

Error: No paper information available - using defaults

although `psPaperSize' is specified in my .xpdfrc.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to ricci@…

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by someuser12

See also #26057

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by ghosthound

Owner: changed from ricci@… to macports-tickets@…

No longer maintainer

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to macports-tickets@…
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