Comment 107 for bug 943195

On 19/01/2014 05:18, C. Jeffery Small wrote:
> 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.

  I would say this deserves a separate, new bug report.

  Have a good day,