On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote:
I can run 'latex document.tex' ok: the resulting .dvi looks
nice in xdvi. When running 'dvips -o document.dvi', I get a
.ps file that I can view OK in Evince.
But when I run 'pdflatex document.tex', the fonts in the
resulting PDF are all ragged and fuzzy... though the print
output is OK.
known issue; using a similar creation chain, see the xpdf
(left) and Evince (right) rendering of the same file:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=291595
I thought I'd rather post this question here, since the
answer is probably distribution-specific.
I filed a bug upstream, as Evince is a poor second to xpdf.
See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428677
CentOS 5 carries an older version:
$ rpm -q evince
evince-0.6.0-8.el5
I see at the prime upstrream site at the Gnome project:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/evince/2.21/
LATEST-IS-2.21.91 11-Feb-2008
Sadly there is no embeded .spec file for easy building
RawHide at Red Hat carries it, but it has a hard dependency
chain as packaged for C5, without some major build environment
surgery
[herrold@centos-5 evince]$ rpmbuild --rebuild evince-2.21.91-2.fc9.src.rpm
Installing evince-2.21.91-2.fc9.src.rpm
error: Failed build dependencies:
glib2-devel >= 2.15.0 is needed by evince-2.21.91-2.x86_64
poppler-glib-devel >= 0.5.9 is needed by evince-2.21.91-2.x86_64
nautilus-devel is needed by evince-2.21.91-2.x86_64
libspectre-devel is needed by evince-2.21.91-2.x86_64
gnome-doc-utils is needed by evince-2.21.91-2.x86_64
gnome-icon-theme >= 2.17.1 is needed by evince-2.21.91-2.x86_64
kpathsea-devel is needed by evince-2.21.91-2.x86_64
djvulibre-devel is needed by evince-2.21.91-2.x86_64
[herrold@centos-5 evince]$
Trying the tarball route, I get a roadblock in the pkgconfig
phase of the ./configure
configure: error: gnome-doc-utils >= 0.3.2 not found
from this line:
configure:gdu_cv_version_required=0.3.2
Short circuiting that, I get:
checking for LIB... configure: error: Package requirements
(gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.5.0 gio-2.0 >= 2.15.4)
were not met:
As I say, major surgery.
I don't understand the mindset of 'latest and greatest
featuritis', and REALLY don't understand the urge to huge 'one
monolithic tool to do much' as it is so contrary and hostile
to the 'nix "small competent tools" history of a classical
UNIX environment, but it is the way of the world ;(
I use xpdf, as a result, and find that it works very well, as
always.
-- Russ herrold
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