Comment 106 for bug 943195

I recently upgraded to Xubuntu 13.10 with the xpdf package 3.03-11ubuntu6.

As TBeholder reported above, xpdf now runs without crashing, but the font display in the menus and index is abominable looking. It looks to me as if antialiasing of these fonts are not being used while those for the display document are. I have no ~/.xpdfrc but there is a global /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc initialization file.

Instead of trying to adjust antialiasing in the configuration file, I tried to set this and other parameters on the command line. What I discovered is that although xpdf -h reports these options, the following do not work:

-mattecolor <color> # error: "<color>" file not found
-z <value> # <value> is ignored
-t1lib <yes/no> # no message -- just displays help
-freetype <yes/no> # error: "<yes/no>" file not found
-aa <yes/no> # error: "<yes/no>" file not found
-aaVector <yes/no> # error: "<yes/no>" file not found
-paper <size> # error: "<size>" file not found

etc.

You get the idea. There is something seriously wrong with this build. These options all work on my Solaris build for version 3.02 of xpdf. The fact that you cannot set the antialias option on the command line may be a further key into the problem reported above. Please fix the program to get a font display that does not hurt so much to view it! :-) Thanks.