Ubuntu Desktop Starter Guide

[Matthew East]

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Lee Tambiah wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 19:37 +0800, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
>>> You just have to fill out a form to enter your details.  You don't need
>>> to enter your Credit card details.
>>>
>>> I've downloaded all of them :)
>> Okay... I have managed to download the "Ubuntu Desktop Stater Guide"....
>> but Evince fails to display it ! It can read the contents table in the
>> left pane, but fails to display anything useful/readable in the main
>> view. I tried with every other PDF viewer I could think of: xpdf, gpdf,
>> kpdf, but all fail.
>> My last attempt was with Acrobat Reader, which thank god manages to
>> display it properly.
>>
>> A Guide on Dapper that can't be read on Dapper... a book about
>> open-source, that can't be read on anything but a proprietary pdf
>> reader.... hmmmm... :-(
> 
> This is a BIG concern, I am going to try this myself to confirm it,
> but we can't allow a document to only be opened in a proprietry solution
> it breaks the FLOSS philosophy. We should be free to view any document, in
> any program. I refuse to put adobe on my machine...

Guys, to clarify once and for all.

These guides are available in HTML and PDF form from the documentation
website at http://help.ubuntu.com

The PDFs on that website work fine in evince and any other pdf reader.

The PDFs you have downloaded from lulu.com are generated with embedded
fonts for printing purposes, and as a result of a bug in
evince/poppler/cairo, do not display properly on Ubuntu. You're not
intended to use these ones for on-screen use, they are purely for
printing purposes.

I will consider removing the option of downloading the PDFs from lulu so
that this confusion doesn't continue.

Matt
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