Ubuntu Desktop Starter Guide

[Sebastian Gil]

2006/6/6, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>:
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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.
>

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