From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54753 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan BRASLAU Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: font-syn.lua error Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:54 +0100 Organization: CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC Message-ID: <200911251159.55013.alan.braslau@cea.fr> References: <6EB9F6E0-988D-4284-99CF-FBCDF92A5446@uni-koblenz.de> <9417CE52-28B8-4160-9471-FCFF8D5612E7@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259146793 967 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 10:59:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:59:53 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 25 11:59:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDFb8-0000dW-1C for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE53DC9C43; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:56 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id AmunzWFpWr2w; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FB0C9C15; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E69C9C15 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:50 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id lcKKmoT0Yu5H for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from oxalide-out.extra.cea.fr (oxalide-out.extra.cea.fr [132.168.224.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234C1C9C12 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from epeire2.extra.cea.fr (epeire2.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.32]) by oxalide.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/CEAnet-Internet-out-2.0) with ESMTP id nAPAxX9H001611 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:33 +0100 Original-Received: from orpin1.extra.cea.fr (orpin1.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.4]) by epeire2.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAPAxWRe026535; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:32 +0100 (envelope-from alan.braslau@cea.fr) Original-Received: from iram-hb-003386.localnet (iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr [132.166.20.134]) by orpin1.extra.cea.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/CEAnet-Extranet-out-1.1) with ESMTP id nAPAxWP1002442; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:54753 Archived-At: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:54:36 luigi scarso wrote: > > That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of > > pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf > > nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time > > around, the subset which does or does not work may be totally different. > > Not dozen, only 2~3 but code independent .My choices are > 1) xpdf (same codebase of luatex) > 2)acroread (the most important viewer for pdf ) > 3) ghostscript (also used by context ) > They are all used / important for TeX community and printing house. I understood that xpdf has been replaced by poppler, a rewritten PDF rendering library (based originally on xpdf, however I am no authority). This library is the motor behind the viewers evince (gnome) and okular (kde). If this is different from the codebase used by luatex, should luatex eventually be migrated to popplar? Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________