Bug 690349

Summary:	corrupt PDF is generated out of PostScript-file with asian fonts
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	artifex
Component:	PDF Writer	Assignee:	Ken Sharp <ken.sharp>
Status:	NOTIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	8.64
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Customer:	870	Word Size:	---
Attachments:	cjk.ps

Description artifex 2009-03-20 09:05:52 UTC

When converting the attached PostScript-file cjk.ps to PDF, a PDF-file is
generated, which is corrupt after the 5. page. The first 5 pages are ok, the 6th
page can not be viewed ( either with Ghostscript and AcrobatReader ). 

The PDF is generated with following command:
gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o out.pdf cjk.ps

Comment 1 artifex 2009-03-20 09:06:53 UTC

Created attachment 4854 [details]
cjk.ps

Comment 2 Ray Johnston 2009-03-26 09:42:17 UTC

Bump to custmoer priority

Comment 3 Ken Sharp 2009-03-30 07:18:58 UTC

Looks like the pdfwrite CFF font writing code is writing garbage under some
conditions. Actually it looks like it often writes some rubbish (the name index
seems always to be broken for example), but it seems that this usually doesn't
matter. In this case it does.

I'm still working on the problem, trying to figure out what's wrong with our
existing code. This is likely to take a few more days yet to resolve.

Comment 4 Ken Sharp 2009-03-31 07:03:03 UTC

Fixed in revision 9606, patch and log here :

http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2009-March/009181.html