On 09/02/2007 08:24 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
Hi!
On 9/2/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unfortunately, evince doesn't show the barcodes on my system. In fact,
none of evince, xpdf, gpdf, and kpdf can see the barcodes.
To have Evince displaying the barcode I did this:
Created a hints file:
begin /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-barcod25/Bar25ifh.ttf
Family = Bar.25i.f.HR
FontName = Bar25ifHR-Regular
Encoding = Unicode
Location = English
Charset = ISO8859-1
GeneralFamily = Roman
Weight = Medium
Width = Variable
Shape = Normal Upright
Priority = 20
end
Installed the font as
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-barcod25/Bar25ifh.ttf and then run
"/usr/bin/defoma-font reregister-all hintfile"
At least I can get Evince displaying the font with this. But I can't
get it on xpdf or acroread.
See if you can get the barcode font embedded in the PDF file.
The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here.
We don't have control over the PDF.
We want to change all machines running Windows to Linux, but the only
missing thing is this barcode font on the PDFs. Windows displays them
correctly while we couldn't make it works on Linux :-/
Thank you!
Best regards,
Nelson
Okay, here's one way to get it to work without changing the PDF file.
Create a file named ~/.xpdfrc with these contents:
include /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc
fontDir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-barcod25/
Warning, the .xpdfrc file must be properly set up or *no fonts* will be
rendered in xpdf; every character counts.
I did this as a regular user. You might want to make this global by
adding the appropriate fontDir specification to the /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc.
Back up the old version first; a single mistake in that file could
render xpdf useless.
I hope this helps.
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P.S.
A potentially even better way to handle this is noted in /etc/xpdf/includes.
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