Help with fonts in XPDF and X in general

Wed Mar 23 19:17:06 UTC 2005

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:33:57AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Adobe's Acrobat reader is a glorified neon sign ad for commercial
> Adobe products, and a lot of space is used by useless menu bars.  So I
> want to use xpdf as my pdf file reader.  xfontsel claims that I have
> 6496 fonts available.  Yet xpdf doesn't display bold or italicized or
> anything other than plain text.  What do I have to do to make the fonts
> available?  Treat me as a newbie on this.

I thought most PDFs had fonts embedded, but I could be wrong.  Do you
have any postscript fonts installed?  It probably does NOT use X fonts
after all.

Lennart Sorensen
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