Vim 7.3 Released

On 16 August 2010, I had received an email from Vim google mailing list, this mail announce that Vim 7.3 was released to public finally. You can check below quote for release note by Bram Moolenaar.

Hello Vim users,

Announcing:  Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.3

This is a minor release of Vim.  It consists of Vim 7.2 plus all
patches, updated runtime files and some more, see below.  It has been
two years since the 7.2 release, thus it's not that "minor".  But not
"major" either.  Something in between, don't know how to call that.

The most notable additions since 7.2:
- Persistent undo and undo for reload
- Blowfish encryption, encryption of the swap file
- Conceal text
- Lua interface
- Python 3 interface

Once you have installed Vim 7.3 you can find all the details about the
changes since Vim 7.2 with:
        :help version-7.3

Gratitude
---------

If you like Vim, this is the way to say thanks:
http://iccf-holland.org/clinic.html

Where to get it
---------------

The best way to obtain the latest Vim 7.3 is using Mercurial.
Summary:
        hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
        cd vim/src
        hg update vim73
        make
More information here: http://www.vim.org/mercurial.php

All downloadable files can be found below this directory:
        ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/

Direct link to the MS-Windows self-installing executable:
        ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim73.exe

Information about which files to download for what system:
        http://www.vim.org/download.php

A list of mirror sites can be found here:
        http://www.vim.org/mirrors.php

UNIX:
unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2           sources + runtime files, bzip2 compressed

MS-WINDOWS one-size-fits-all:
pc/gvim73.exe                  installer for GUI and console executables,
                               includes all runtime files, many features

VARIOUS:
doc/vim73html.zip              help files converted to HTML

MS-WINDOWS separate files:
pc/vim73rt.zip                 runtime files
pc/gvim73.zip                  GUI binary for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
pc/gvim73ole.zip               GUI binary with OLE support
pc/gvim73_s.zip                GUI binary for Windows 3.1 (untested)
pc/vim73d32.zip                console version for MS-DOS/Windows 95/98
pc/vim73w32.zip                console version for Windows NT/2000/XP
pc/vim73src.zip                sources for PC (with CR-LF)

DIFFS TO PREVIOUS RELEASE:
unix/vim-7.2-7.3.diff.gz               sources + runtime files
unstable/unix/vim-7.3f-7.3.diff.gz     sources + runtime files

Omitted in this version are:
- Extra and lang archives, these are now included in the main source
  and runtime archives.
- The 16-bit DOS, OS/2 and Amiga versions, these are obsolete.

Mailing lists
-------------

For user questions you can turn to the Vim mailing list.  There are a
lot of tips, scripts and solutions.  You can ask your Vim questions, but
only if you subscribe.  See http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim

If you want to help Vim development, discuss new features or get the
latest patches, subscribe to the vim-dev mailing list.  See
http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-dev

Subject specific lists:
Multi-byte issues: http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-multibyte
Macintosh issues:  http://www.vim.org/maillist.php#vim-mac

Before you ask a question you should search the archives, someone may
already have given the answer.

Reporting bugs
--------------

Send them to ...@vim.org>.  Please describe the problem precisely.
All the time spent on answering mail is subtracted from the time that is
spent on improving Vim!  Always give a reproducible example and try to
find out which settings or other things influence the appearance of the
bug.  Try starting without your own vimrc file: "vim -u NONE".  Try
different machines if possible.  See ":help bugs" in Vim.  Send me a
patch if you can!

Happy Vimming!

--
Q: Should I clean my house or work on Vim?
A: Whatever contains more bugs.

 /// Bram Moolenaar -- B...@Moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net   \\\
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\\\        download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org        ///
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Bad Evince Font in Slackware

When I install evince on my Slackware, sometimes I encounter a strange problem which is the font is not display correctly or looks weird, as like the picture below:

You can see that there are fonts look too bold and inconvenient to read. After diving in google, I found that the problem comes from the Nimbus font in slackware package. To check and fix it you can follow instructions below:

• Check fonts in pdf file

$ pdffonts file.pdf
name                                 type      emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ --------- --- --- --- ---------
Times-Italic                         Type 1    no  no  no       5  0
Times-Roman                          Type 1    no  no  no       7  0
Times-Bold                           Type 1    no  no  no      13  0
Courier-Bold                         Type 1    no  no  no      18  0
XOEOHB+CMSY10                        Type 1    yes yes no      21  0
Courier                              Type 1    no  no  no      23  0
RXRCVR+CMSY7                         Type 1    yes yes no      26  0
CRMLEZ+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167  Type 1    yes yes no      32  0

• Check"Times" compatible font

$ fc-match "times"
n021004l.pfb: "Nimbus Roman No9 L" "Medium"

• Find n021004l.pfb location

$ su
password:
# find / -name "n021004l.pfb" -print
/usr/share/fonts/Type1/n021004l.pfb
/usr/share/libwmf/fonts/n021004l.pfb

• Download new n021004l.pfb
As I get from searching in google, the problem is n021004l.pfb in Slackware package is not updated yet, so we need to replace it with the new one. In this case I'll replace it with the Fedora 13 URW fonts package. You can download the package from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=138570
• Extract the rpm package

# rpm2cpio urw-fonts-2.4-9.fc13.noarch.rpm | cpio -idmv 

• Copy fonts file and reboot

# cd usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
# cp n021004l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/Type1/n021004l.pfb
# reboot 

After reboot then I check evince display, and the result is like below. There we can see that the font looks better and convenient than before.

I hope this tutorial is helpful.