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korn36

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Registered: 2014-01-14

Posts: 111

Barcodes in PDF files - not working.

So, I wanted to open a PDF file which contains a barcode, and the barcode doesn't display at all in readers such as Okular, Evince, Qpdfview. It displays in Adobe Reader, but I don't like Adobe Reader.
The barcode is visible on other linux distros.
Poppler is installed and updated to the latest version. ttf-free3of9 is installed.
How can I fix it?

ewaller

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Re: Barcodes in PDF files - not working.

Run Okular from the command line and look at the console output.  Is it complaining about any missing libraries or plug-ins

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korn36

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Registered: 2014-01-14

Posts: 111

Re: Barcodes in PDF files - not working.

Okular doesn't complain.
Xpdf does:

Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-bold-i-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

abbylee

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Registered: 2015-01-29

Posts: 3

Re: Barcodes in PDF files - not working.

Try to keep the bar code images from PDF and then use spam link redacted to recognize this bar code.

Last edited by jasonwryan (2015-04-23 02:52:05)