Bug 24226

Summary:	No warning if necessary fonts are not available
Product:	[Applications] kghostview	Reporter:	lists
Component:	general	Assignee:	Wilco Greven <greven>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	acgetchell
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	This is a pdf that won't open

Description lists 2001-04-16 14:18:10 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kghostview
Version:           unbekannt (using KDE 2.1.1 )
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    Debian Package 4:2.1.1-0.potato4 (2.2)
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)
OS:                Linux 2.4.3 i686
OS/Compiler notes: 

Almost all pdf files I tried will
not be displayed by kghostview
Adobes Acrobat Reader works fine. There are _no_
error or warning messages. The pages
in KGhostview are blank or sometimes display an ugly rendering
of an embedded image. 


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Comment 1 Nils Kassube 2001-04-19 16:49:01 UTC

Guten Morgen.

You can display many PDFs by installing the gsfonts
package (Why wasn't it installed automagically?).

On my Debian Potato system: 

        apt-get install gsfonts

Well a warning ("missing fonts" or something like
that) would have been nice. It surely beats an empty 
page... 

Cheers
Nils

Comment 2 Wilco Greven 2001-04-19 20:55:36 UTC

Hello

On Thu Apr 19 2001 at 06:49:01PM +0200 Nils Kassube wrote:
> Guten Morgen.
> 
> You can display many PDFs by installing the gsfonts
> package (Why wasn't it installed automagically?).

gs-aladdin says "Recommends: gsfonts (>= 4.01-3)" on my system (Debian 
Woody). I guess it's already fixed then.

> 
> On my Debian Potato system: 
> 
>         apt-get install gsfonts
> 
> Well a warning ("missing fonts" or something like
> that) would have been nice. It surely beats an empty 
> page... 

Ok I'll keep the bug open. It would indeed be better to warn the user
that the necessary fonts are not available.

Greetings
Wilco

Comment 3 Tom Kaitchuck 2002-10-03 01:29:59 UTC

Created attachment 123 [details]
This is a pdf that won't open

Something very similar now happens with Mandrake 9.0 (kdegraphics-3.0.3-11mdk.)
However I can't seem to find any package named gsfonts or similar, so I can't
tell if that is the problem. However all of it's dependencies are satisfied and
both gv and xpdf can display it. 

Another Interesting note is that preview in konqueror works.

So in any event I have attached a test case of a pdf that it cannot open.

Comment 4 Daniel Naber 2002-10-05 01:08:48 UTC

*** Bug 48622 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Luís Pedro Coelho 2003-04-06 20:08:07 UTC

compare with bug 53871. It might be a similiar underlying solution.

Comment 6 Luís Pedro Coelho 2003-04-06 20:15:30 UTC

*** Bug 48425 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Luís Pedro Coelho 2003-04-09 00:03:06 UTC

collapsing warn-if-gs-fails bugs into one. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53871 ***