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

[j.van_den_hoff@…]

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.

[someuser12]

See also #26057

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