Summary: | Too much white space in words of PDF generated with Ghostscript 8.14 | ||
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Product: | Ghostscript | Reporter: | Bo Overgaauw <subscriber.info> |
Component: | PDF Writer | Assignee: | Jack Moffitt <jack> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P2 | ||
Version: | 8.14 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows 2000 | ||
Customer: | Word Size: | --- | |
Attachments: |
Test PS and PDF files showing white space problem
Unzipped test file: test.ps Unzipped test file: test.pdf test2.zip: Contains PS and PDF files for other fonts with degree char. |
Description
Bo Overgaauw
2004-06-05 08:19:19 UTC
Please re-visit the bug report and attach the sample file. Created attachment 701 [details]
Test PS and PDF files showing white space problem
Created attachment 702 [details]
Unzipped test file: test.ps
I forgot to mention that my previous attachment is a ZIP file. To facilitate
analysis, attached you will find the file test.ps, the file test.pdf will
follow.
Bo
Created attachment 703 [details]
Unzipped test file: test.pdf
This file, test.pdf, is the PDF I generated from test.ps.
Bo
Most likely the problem is caused by incorrect metrics of the degree symbol in NimbusSanL-Regu (n019003l.pfb). This happens with both v.6.0 and v.8.11 of the font. Installation of real Helvetica fixes the problem. AFN line for NimbusSanL-Regu C -1 ; WX 606 ; N degree ; B 151 383 454 686 ; AFM line for Helvetica C -1 ; WX 400 ; N degree ; B 54 411 346 703 ; Dear Mr. Cherepanov et al., I would not be surprised if (i) the degree symbol is not the only character for which differences between the various Helvetica font variations exist; and (ii) similar issues exist with the other fonts. Is there any tracking system/list that documents all known issues of this type? Thanks for all the help. Kind regards, Bo There is a super bug 687297 that tracks all issues for the new font release. Although a few other problems have been reported before, this is the first report of a problem in font metrics. We really need to draw the Ghostscript fonts side by side with the corresponding Adobe fonts and fix all the significant differences. Created attachment 704 [details]
test2.zip: Contains PS and PDF files for other fonts with degree char.
This ZIP file contains the PostScript and PDF files I created from a small
document with some more test lines containing the degree character, using the
Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow, Times and Courier fonts, all in four variations:
Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold/Italic.
The degree character systematically causes problems with the Helvetica font,
not with any other font for as far as I could see.
I created two other test documents as well locally to test the "|" and "~"
characters, but did not find any problem with them.
rolling this bug into the new font release task list *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 687297 *** |