Frank Winkler wrote:

> Silly me!!! It was just a typo: I forgot the trailing "s" in
> "--with-freetype2-includes" so it was a matter of headers instead of libs.
> Fixed that and it configures and compiles. I suppose it also would with
> Sun's FreeType.

:-)

> xpdf looks nice, significantly different from gpdf (which I thought is a
> derivative of xpdf). BUT it still doesn't display most PDFs properly. I
> just get unreadable garbage on the screen. The same file with acroread
> looks fine.

Ok, too bad. Out of curiosity, could you post a link to a couple such
PDFs?

I remember once having a PDF file that acroread could not read whereas
xpdf could, because the PDF did not include some non-standard fonts it
was using and acroread did not look for the fonts in the system.

It has been quite some time since I last saw a PDF I could not read with
xpdf, but then I mostly read PDF generated by pdflatex (nothing too
fancy).

Good luck with getting Adobe support for solaris-x86 (there is still the
jpedal option worth trying, the free version is a bit hard to find on
their website, but it is a completely different codebase than xpdf so it
might not have issues with the same PDF).