Subject: Re: acroread7 and fonts
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/05/2005 23:11:36
On Thu, 5 May 2005 17:09:48 -0400
Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that acroread7 doesn't have or use all the fonts that are
> available in acroread5. Take, for example, the PDF available at
> http://www.math.stevens.edu/~pmiller/pub/symposium-2005-schedule.pdf
>
> This document seems to render fine in acroread, but when you try to
> print it (either to a file or to a printer), it gets quite messed up.
>
> acroread5 does not have that problem. Anybody have any ideas how to
> fix this?
>
> Also, in order to be able to print from acroread7, I had to actually
> manually create a symlink from /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/lp{r,} to
> /usr/pkg/lp{r,}, which was not necessary (and should not be necessary)
> for acroread5.
>
> I think here the problem was that acroread7 tried to use
> /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/lpr, which of course
> failed, and then tried /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/lpr. I believe
> that under normal circumstances, it's supposed to try
> /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/lpr first, fail and then use /usr/bin/lpr.
acroread7 crashes here every time I try to load a PDF file:
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=30008
Does it work for you?