| Summary: | Pdf character spacing wrong with degree symbol | ||
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| Product: | Ghostscript | Reporter: | Jon Aldred <jon_a9999> |
| Component: | PDF Writer | Assignee: | Ken Sharp <ken.sharp> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P4 | ||
| Version: | 8.63 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
| Customer: | Word Size: | --- | |
| Attachments: |
Original Word document
Generated postscript file Converted pdf file |
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Description
Jon Aldred
2008-09-29 02:54:47 UTC
Created attachment 4441 [details]
Original Word document
Created attachment 4442 [details]
Generated postscript file
Created attachment 4443 [details]
Converted pdf file
I think this may be due to the font not being embedded. When you open the file in Acrobat, you can see the reported difference. If you open the file in Ghostscript, however, you can't. Now if you check the properties in Acrobat you can see that the font being used by Acrobat is not Helvetica, its 'ArialMT'. Of course when rendered using GS, the Helvetica font used to render the PDF file is the same as the Helvetica font used to create the PDF file, so the two match. Most likely the width of one of the glyphs in the string is different in the Helvetica being used by Ghostscript and the ArialMT being used by Acrobat. Note that pdfwrite isn't emitting a /Widths array for this font, presumably because its a standard font, whereas Distiller does. I note also that Distiller (as usual) re-encodes the font to WinAnsi... At the moment I can't seem to persuade GS to embed the font for me, I'm unsure why but I suspect this would solve the problem. |