On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:07:08PM +0000, Adam Sampson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:59:45PM +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote: > > > xpdf /usr/share/texmf/doc/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf.gz > > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > > "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct > > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > > "-*-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct > > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > > "-*-times-bold-i-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct > > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > > "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct > > If so, can you try to find out where these strings come from (they look > > like Xresources meant for xterm, or some such)? > > Those are the default fonts that xpdf specifies for its user interface > -- they're hardcoded in the source code.
oh. Where did I have my eyes? I did some searching in poppler, but they were hiding in plain sight! > Looking at how nedit handles this, maybe xpdf should have: > Recommends: xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi > ? That's easy enough to add. However I almost can't believe somebody running xpdf does not have those installed, given that they're a dependency of the xorg package... Florian
