%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ <application>Xpdf</application>-&xpdf-version; Introduction to <application>Xpdf</application> Xpdf is a viewer for Adobe's free Portable Document Format (PDF) which is both fast and small and comes with some useful command-line utilities. Package information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &xpdf-md5sum; Download size: &xpdf-size; Estimated disk space required: &xpdf-buildsize; Estimated build time: &xpdf-time; Additional downloads Required patch: Required patch: <application>Xpdf</application> dependencies Required Optional or (just the fonts), t1lib and libpaper Installation of <application>Xpdf</application> Install Xpdf by running the following commands: patch -d xpdf -Np0 -i ../../xpdf-&xpdf-version;.patch && patch -Np1 -i ../xpdf-&xpdf-version;-freetype_2.1.7_hack-2.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 && make && make install Installation command explanations : This switch must be added to set DIN A4 as the standard paper format. Configuring <application>Xpdf</application> Config files /etc/xpdfrc, ~/.xpdfrc Configuration Information In the /etc directory you will find a sample xpdfrc that can be either copied to ~/.xpdfrc or taken as an example to write your own configuration file. # Example .xpdfrc displayFontT1 Times-Roman /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb displayFontT1 Times-Italic /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021023l.pfb displayFontT1 Times-Bold /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021004l.pfb displayFontT1 Times-BoldItalic /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021024l.pfb displayFontT1 Helvetica /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb displayFontT1 Helvetica-Oblique /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019023l.pfb displayFontT1 Helvetica-Bold /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019004l.pfb displayFontT1 Helvetica-BoldOblique /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019024l.pfb displayFontT1 Courier /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb displayFontT1 Courier-Oblique /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022023l.pfb displayFontT1 Courier-Bold /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb displayFontT1 Courier-BoldOblique /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022024l.pfb displayFontT1 Symbol /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/s050000l.pfb displayFontT1 ZapfDingbats /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/d050000l.pfb fontDir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF psFile "|lpr" psPaperSize letter #psPaperSize A4 textEOL unix enableT1lib yes enableFreeType yes antialias yes urlCommand "links -g %s" Contents The Xpdf package contains xpdf, pdftops, pdftotext, pdftoppm, pdffonts, pdfimages and pdfinfo. Description xpdf xpdf displays files in PDF format. pdftops pdftops converts PDF files to PS format. pdftotext pdftotext parses ASCII text from PDF files. pdftoppm pdftoppm converts PDF files to PBM, PGM, PPM formats. pdffonts pdffonts lists the fonts used in a PDF file along with various information for each font. pdfimages pdfimages saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files. pdfinfo pdfinfo prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful information) from a PDF file.