1 TITLE: Setting up and configure xpdf
3 AUTHOR: Alex Kloss <l.x.@gmx.de>
6 xpdf is a free and fast replacement for the Acrobat Reader,
7 featuring some very useful utils (like pdftotext
10 Pine is one of the most userfriendly mail reading/sending
14 ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/ or
15 http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
16 -> xpdf-<version>.tar.gz
17 optional: t1lib-<version>.tar.gz and freetype-<version>.tar.gz
18 The t1lib is only to render Type 1 fonts (not really necessary),
19 while freetype2 is usually already installed with XFree86.
22 Since Freetype2 is usually already installed with XFree86, here
23 are no separate instructions how to install this package.
24 You don't need to install t1lib either to use xpdf, but you can
25 have antialiased Type1 fonts with it (which is extremely cool),
26 so you may want to install it anyway.
31 ./configure --prefix=/usr/X11R6 &&
32 make [without_doc*] &&
35 *: if you don't have LaTeX or want the documentation, otherwise
42 ./configure --prefix=/usr/X11R6 --enable-a4-paper \
43 --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 \
44 --with-freetype2-library=/usr/X11R6/lib --with-gzip \
45 --with-appdef-dir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ &&
51 Copy the sample configuration file:
53 cp doc/sample-xpdfrc ~/.xpdfrc
55 and edit the file to match your needs. Everything is commented
56 out, so you should at least choose your favourite browser and
57 whatever font replacements are necessary on your system (and
58 maybe you want antialiasing, too - both settings are on the
62 Hope this was helpful!