Enable Foreign Language Support For PDF
Posted by mofo on July 17th, 2007
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The tools include xpdf, a PDF viewer (in the package xpdf-reader), and PDF converters (including to/from PostScript) (in the package xpdf-utils).
To install the xpdf type;
sudo apt-get install xpdf-%langugae%
where %language% is the language you wish to install.
The following languages are available;
- Arabic: xpdf-arabic.tar.gz (1058 bytes)
- Chinese/simplified: xpdf-chinese-simplified.tar.gz (835807 bytes)
- Chinese/traditional: xpdf-chinese-traditional.tar.gz (794568 bytes)
- Cyrillic: xpdf-cyrillic.tar.gz (1326 bytes)
- Greek: xpdf-greek.tar.gz (1164 bytes)
- Hebrew: xpdf-hebrew.tar.gz (1314 bytes)
- Japanese: xpdf-japanese.tar.gz (494624 bytes)
- Korean: xpdf-korean.tar.gz (470166 bytes)
- Latin2: xpdf-latin2.tar.gz (1435 bytes)
- Thai: xpdf-thai.tar.gz (1873 bytes)
- Turkish: xpdf-turkish.tar.gz (1140 bytes)
For example to install Chinese simplified you would type;
sudo apt-get install xpdf-chinese-simplified
Source from here
