From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54754 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: font-syn.lua error Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:06:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4B0D0FC6.40908@wxs.nl> References: <6EB9F6E0-988D-4284-99CF-FBCDF92A5446@uni-koblenz.de> <9417CE52-28B8-4160-9471-FCFF8D5612E7@uni-bonn.de> <200911251159.55013.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259147222 2639 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 11:07:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:07:02 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 25 12:06:55 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 1NDFi3-0003q6-Hc for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:06:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4A0C9C43; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:04:07 +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 ab8TdmuqnS4N; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:04:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78251C9C1F; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:04:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7CDC9C12 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:04:02 +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 WFJtW3NwkIe6 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:04:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9228AC9C1F for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:04:00 +0100 (CET) X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-9 (SurgeMail 4.2a3) with ESMTP id 7018-1713362 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:05:45 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <200911251159.55013.alan.braslau@cea.fr> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 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:54754 Archived-At: Alan BRASLAU wrote: > 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? we only need a limited library, no rendering, only loading and inclusion, and the problems that were reported are related to rendering Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________