source: pst/ps/xpdf.xml@ aac75b3

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/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-md5sum        "599dc4cc65a07ee868cf92a667a913d2">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-size          "674 KB">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-buildsize     "46 MB">
  <!ENTITY xpdf-time          "0.4 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="xpdf" xreflabel="Xpdf-&xpdf-version;pl2">
  <?dbhtml filename="xpdf.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Xpdf-&xpdf-version;pl2</title>

  <indexterm zone="xpdf">
    <primary sortas="a-Xpdf">Xpdf</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Xpdf</title>

    <para><application>Xpdf</application> 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.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <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 MD5 sum: &xpdf-md5sum;</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>

    <!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch: <ulink
        url="ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.01pl2.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist> -->

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Xpdf Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="lesstif"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gs"/> or <xref linkend="espgs"/>
    (just the fonts), <ulink
    url="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/visual/ibiblio/libs/graphics/t1lib-5.1.0.tar.gz">
    t1lib</ulink>, and <ulink
    url="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper">libpaper</ulink></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Xpdf"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Xpdf</title>

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
            --enable-opi \
            --enable-multithreaded \
            --enable-wordlist &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

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

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Xpdf</title>

    <sect3 id="xpdf-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/xpdfrc</filename> and
      <filename>~/.xpdfrc</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="xpdf xpdf-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.xpdfrc">~/.xpdfrc</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="xpdf xpdf-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-xpdfrc">/etc/xpdfrc</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

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

      <para>In the <filename class='directory'>/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. Below you'll find a condensed version of the
      file you may wish to build from.</para>

<screen><literal># 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/share/fonts/X11-TTF

psFile                  "|lpr"
psPaperSize             letter
#psPaperSize             A4
textEOL                 unix

enableT1lib             yes
enableFreeType          yes
antialias               yes

urlCommand              "links -g %s"</literal></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext,
        and xpdf</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="pdffonts">
        <term><command>pdffonts</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>lists the fonts used in a PDF file along
          with various information for each font.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xpdf pdffonts">
            <primary sortas="b-pdffonts">pdffonts</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdfimages">
        <term><command>pdfimages</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xpdf pdfimages">
            <primary sortas="b-pdfimages">pdfimages</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdfinfo">
        <term><command>pdfinfo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some
          other useful information) from a PDF file.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xpdf pdfinfo">
            <primary sortas="b-pdfinfo">pdfinfo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdftoppm">
        <term><command>pdftoppm</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xpdf pdftoppm">
            <primary sortas="b-pdftoppm">pdftoppm</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdftops">
        <term><command>pdftops</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> converts PDF files to Postscript format.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xpdf pdftops">
            <primary sortas="b-pdftops">pdftops</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdftotext">
        <term><command>pdftotext</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>parses ASCII text from PDF files.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xpdf pdftotext">
            <primary sortas="b-pdftotext">pdftotext</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="xpdf-prog">
        <term><command>xpdf</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>displays files in PDF format.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xpdf xpdf-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-xpdf">xpdf</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>