Re: ANN: ImageApps Feb. 2004

[Brent Fulgham]

On 2004-02-04 04:26:23 -0800 Martin Herbert Dietze 
<herbert@spamcop.net> wrote:

> Stefan Kleine Stegemann <stefan@wms-network.de> wrote:
>
> > ViewPDF: Uses the new version of PDFKit and thus does not support
> >            ghostscript based rendering any more. Minor bugfixex.
>
> I downloaded the tarball from [1], compiled and installed the
> software. However when trying to view a pdf file, I get error
> messages like "Error: Couldn't create a font for
> 'WFLHPU+CMR12'" and then an empty page in the viewer.

I have encountered this same problem (with other fonts).  It looks 
like PDFKits comes with a couple of fonts, but doesn't know how to 
substitute fonts when necessary.

I worked around the problem by creating symlinks between my font store 
on my Debian system and the Resources directory for ViewPDF.  Stefan 
hasn't had time to answer a separate e-mail I sent asking what the 
font search path is, but I hope he will when he has a chance.  Once we 
understand that, we can provide better hints for how to integrate with 
your existing fonts.

Thanks,

-Brent