source: pst/ps/xpdf.xml@ 959f944

<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
 
  <!ENTITY xpdf-download-http "http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/xpdf/xpdf-&xpdf-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-&xpdf-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-size          "490 KB">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-buildsize     "21 MB">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-time          "0.41 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="xpdf" xreflabel="Xpdf-&xpdf-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="xpdf.html"?>
<title>Xpdf-&xpdf-version;</title>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Xpdf</application></title>

<para><application>Xpdf</application> is a viewer for Adobe's free Portable 
Document Format (<acronym>PDF</acronym>) which is both fast and small and 
comes with some useful command-line utilities.</para>

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&xpdf-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&xpdf-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &xpdf-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
&xpdf-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&xpdf-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Required Patch: <ulink
url="&patch-root;/xpdf-3.00-freetype-2.1.7-hack.patch"/></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></sect3>
                                                                                
<sect3><title><application>Xpdf</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para><xref linkend="lesstif"/>
</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/visual/ibiblio/libs/graphics/t1lib-5.0.2.tar.gz">t1lib</ulink> and
<xref linkend="gs"/> or <xref linkend="espgs"/> 
</para></sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Xpdf</application></title>

<para>Install <application>Xpdf</application> by running the following commands:
</para>

<screen><userinput><command>patch -Np1 -i ../xpdf-3.00-freetype-3.1.7-hack.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation command explanations</title>

<para><option>--enable-a4-paper</option>: This switch must be
added to set <acronym>DIN</acronym> A4 as the standard paper format.</para> 

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Configuring <application>Xpdf</application></title>

<sect3><title>Config files</title>
<para><filename>/etc/xpdfrc</filename>, 
<filename>~/.xpdfrc</filename></para></sect3>

<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>

<para>In the <filename>etc</filename> directory you will find a sample
<filename>xpdfrc</filename> that can be either copied to
<filename>~/.xpdfrc</filename> or taken as an example to write your own
configuration file.</para>

<screen><userinput># 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
textEOL                 unix

enableT1lib             yes
enableFreeType          yes
antialias               yes

urlCommand              "links -g %s"</userinput></screen>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The <application>Xpdf</application> package contains
<command>xpdf</command>, <command>pdftops</command>,
<command>pdftotext</command>, <command>pdftoppm</command>,
<command>pdffonts</command>, <command>pdfimages</command> and
<command>pdfinfo</command>.</para>
</sect2>

<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>xpdf</title>
<para><command>xpdf</command> displays files in <acronym>PDF</acronym>
format.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>pdftops</title>
<para><command>pdftops</command> converts <acronym>PDF</acronym> files to 
<acronym>PS</acronym> format.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>pdftotext</title>
<para><command>pdftotext</command> parses <acronym>ASCII</acronym> text from 
<acronym>PDF</acronym> files.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>pdftoppm</title>
<para><command>pdftoppm</command> converts <acronym>PDF</acronym> files to 
<acronym>PBM</acronym>, <acronym>PGM</acronym>, <acronym>PPM</acronym>
formats.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>pdffonts</title>
<para><command>pdffonts</command> lists the fonts used in a
<acronym>PDF</acronym> file along with various information for each
font.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>pdfimages</title>
<para><command>pdfimages</command> saves images from a
<acronym>PDF</acronym> file as <acronym>PPM</acronym>,
<acronym>PBM</acronym>, or <acronym>JPEG</acronym> files.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>pdfinfo</title>
<para><command>pdfinfo</command> prints the contents of the 'Info'
dictionary (plus some other useful information) from a
<acronym>PDF</acronym> file.</para></sect3>

</sect2>

</sect1>