[OS X TeX] OT: help with font embeddings

[Stephen Moye]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>

> Funny you should say that -- I just installed some of the xpdf  
> tools (pdftops,
> pdftotext, pdfimages, pdfinfo and pdffonts): it was a simple  
> install requiring
> only that the xcode tools be installed. The package from foolabs  
> will not
> install xpdf and pdftoppm because (I discovered when running ./ 
> configure)
> FreeType and Motif could not be found. That was odd because I did  
> install
> FreeType using the i-Installer. I gather, however, that xpdf itself  
> is a previewer,
> as well as a gui interface for the other utilities, so that is not  
> really necessary.
> pdftoppm might be nice however...
>
> In short, I have also been wondering if we could get an i-package  
> out of this,
> though I hesitate to burden Gerben any further... :>}
>
> In any event, the tools that were installed are extremely useful  
> and work as
> advertised. Do install version 3.01, as version 3.00 has a nasty  
> font bug.
>
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Two things:

1. Yes, 'gui interface' is tautologous;

2. I forgot to mention that (again according to ./configure) a number of
other things for a complete installation of xpdf were missing, including
t1 library:

checking whether to use t1 library... maybe
checking where to find the t1 header files...
checking t1lib.h usability... no
checking t1lib.h presence... no
checking for t1lib.h... no
not using t1 library
checking whether to use freetype2 library... maybe
checking where to find the freetype2 header files...
checking ft2build.h usability... no
checking ft2build.h presence... no
checking for ft2build.h... no
not using freetype2 library

SGM
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