Bug 690166

Summary:	extra space after apostrophe when distilled
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Mark DeVries <mdevries>
Component:	PDF Writer	Assignee:	Ken Sharp <ken.sharp>
Status:	NOTIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	8.63
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Customer:	1130	Word Size:	---
Attachments:	apostrophes.ps apostrophes-863-bad.pdf apostrophes-850-good.pdf

Description Mark DeVries 2008-11-11 11:48:11 UTC

In the sample PostScript file, characters are spaced normally when viewed with
gs. When distilled to PDF with gs 8.63, blank space appears after each
apostrophe character.  This happens on both Windows XP and RedHat Linux.  Same
PS file distilled with gs 8.50 has correct spacing.

Comment 1 Mark DeVries 2008-11-11 11:50:22 UTC

Created attachment 4591 [details]
apostrophes.ps

Comment 2 Mark DeVries 2008-11-11 11:51:12 UTC

Created attachment 4592 [details]
apostrophes-863-bad.pdf

Comment 3 Mark DeVries 2008-11-11 11:51:44 UTC

Created attachment 4593 [details]
apostrophes-850-good.pdf

Comment 4 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2008-11-11 20:42:43 UTC

Confirmed that it also happens with gshead (r9215).  Looking for the revision
which broke this now.

Comment 5 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2008-11-11 22:02:19 UTC

Behavior changed in r8235:

r8235 | ken | 2007-09-10 01:31:42 -0700 (Mon, 10 Sep 2007) | 58 lines

Update pdfwrite to handle type 0 fonts with type 1 or type 2 descendant fonts.

Comment 6 Ken Sharp 2008-11-17 02:43:36 UTC

The call to pdf_adjust_first_last_char always used a length of 1, instead of the
string length, which meant only the first member of the string was used.

Fixed in revision 9223 with this patch:

http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2008-November/008802.html