Re: Problems displaying Japanese characters: poppler-data and xpdf-japanese installed

["Roderich Schupp" <roderich schupp googlemail com>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Jeroen Hoek <mail jeroenhoek nl> wrote:
> To make sure it isn't a problem related to the architectures, if it isn't
> too much of a bother, could someone with a 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu installation
> give the following PDF a try in Evince?
>
> One of the Japanese documents in question:
> http://coe21.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/papers/ws-type-2003/085-kamichi.pdf

Works for me (even cut+paste) here on Debian sid for amd64 and the
following packages installed:

xpdf-chinese-simplified  20040727-1  [install ok installed]
xpdf-common  3.02-1.4  [install ok installed]
xpdf-japanese  1:20040727-1  [install ok installed]
xpdf-reader  3.02-1.4  [install ok installed]
libcairo2  1.8.4-1  [install ok installed]
libpoppler-glib3  0.8.7-1  [install ok installed]
libpoppler3  0.8.7-1  [install ok installed]
poppler-data  0.2.1-1  [install ok installed]
poppler-utils  0.8.7-1  [install ok installed]
evince  2.24.1-1  [install ok installed]
ttf-kochi-gothic  1.0.20030809-8  [install ok installed]
ttf-kochi-mincho  1.0.20030809-8  [install ok installed]
ttf-sazanami-gothic  20040629-2  [install ok installed]
ttf-sazanami-mincho  20040629-2  [install ok installed]

AFAIK xpdf-japanese shouldn't be needed for poppler-based rendering
if you have poppler-data installed.

Cheers, Roderich