Re: Configure Evince

[Johannes Buchner <buchner johannes gmx at>]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:11 -0500, Gideon Alon wrote:
> Configure summary:
>         PDF Backend........:  no
>         PostScript Backend.:  yes
>         TIFF Backend.......:  no
>         DJVU Backend.......:  no
>         DVI Backend........:  no
>         Pixbuf Backend.....:  no
>         Comics Backend.....:  no
>         Impress Backend....:  no
> 
> How can get all of those file types supported in evince? 

./configure --help
  --enable-pdf            Compile with pdf support
  --disable-ps            Compile without PostScript backend
  --enable-tiff           Compile with support of multipage tiff
  --enable-djvu           Compile with support of djvu viewer
  --enable-dvi            Compile with support of dvi viewer
  --enable-t1lib          Compile with support of t1lib for type1 fonts
in dvi
  --enable-pixbuf         Compile with support of pixbuf
  --enable-comics         Compile with support for comic book archives
  --enable-impress        Compile with support for impress presentations

If it complains not finding something (like when you compiled poppler
head), point your PKG_CONFIG env var there.

> ( I don't have any configure errors)
Seeing "PDF: no", there is usually a info why this was deselected. 

Greetings,
Johannes