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BePDF requires
Notes on Japanese or Chinese Font Sets
BePDF Version 0.7.9a3 and later supports PDF files that use traditional or simplified Chinese and Japanese fonts. To render such documents correctly, a font, such as Haru, with appropriate glyphs is required. Haru is included with BeOS 5 Pro, but is not installed by default. To install the Haru font:
- From the BeOS 5 CDROM copy Haru.ttf from /BeOS 5 Pro Edition/_packages_/Japanese/beos/etc/fonts/ttfonts to /boot/home/fonts/ttfonts or /boot/beos/etc/fonts/ttfonts
- Either reboot BeOS or choose "Rescan" in the Fonts dialog found in the Deskbar menu under Preferences
The fonts used for Japanese, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese can be configured in the Preferences window of BePDF.
BeOS 5 PE users may download the Japenese font set here (7.51 MB).
For additional information on font configuration, please see the Preferences section.
Notes on Ghostscript
BePDF can use Ghostscript 6.50 or later to render pages, if it finds the file libgs.so in the library search path. The renderer can be enabled in the Preferences window of BePDF.
More information regarding Ghostscript configuration may be found in the Preferences section of the documentation.
For Ghostscript versions prior to Ghostscript 7.00, the file "pdf_sec.ps" in your Ghostscript installation directory /boot/apps/Ghostscript/lib has to be replaced with this version to render encrypted PDF files with the Ghostscript renderer. This is not required for Ghostscript 7.00 and later.
The Ghostscript renderer is still experimental. It should not crash, but it does not display all PDF files. This a bug in Ghostscript. For troubleshooting, Ghostscript does output information that may be helpful using stdout. To see this information BePDF has to be run from a terminal or shell tool.
Please read more about the current limitations of the Ghostscript renderer in Version History.
Notes on ZapfDingbats
Please refer to the Installation section of the documentation.
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