Help with fonts in XPDF and X in general

[Walter Dnes]

  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.

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and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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