Download location (HTTP): Download location (FTP): ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-2.02.tar.gz Version used: 2.02 Package size: 472 KB Estimated Disk space required: 8.2 MB Estimated build time: 1.05 SBU |
xpdf 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.
xpdf depends on: xfree86-4.3.0 and lesstif-0.93.36 xpdf will utilize: Installed fonts: GhostScript-8.00, freetype-2.1.3, t1lib and truetype |
Install xpdf by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man \
--with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-freetype2-library=/usr/lib \
--with-appdef-dir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ &&
make &&
make install |
--enable-a4-paper : This switch must be added to set DIN A4 as the standard paper format.
xpdf displays files in PDF format.
pdftops converts PDF files to Postscript format.
pdftotext parses ASCII text from PDF files.
pdftopbm converts PDF files to PBM (Portable BitMap) format.
In the etc directory you will find a sample xpdfrc that can be either copied to ~/.xpdfrc or taken as example to write your own configuration file.
# 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/truetype psFile "|lpr" psPaperSize a4 textEOL unix t1libControl low freetypeControl low urlCommand "links -g %s" |