Bug 690882

Summary:	ps2pdf mangles type 3 fonts
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Matt <mauger>
Component:	PDF Writer	Assignee:	Ken Sharp <ken.sharp>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4
Version:	8.70
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	f4.eps

Description Matt 2009-11-02 12:03:21 UTC

I'm trying to convert eps figures created with the python package matplotlib
into pdf figures; however, when I do this the figure fonts are sometimes mangled
(the fonts are Type 3 fonts). This happens with gs 8.70 but not with gs 8.63.
When viewing the PDF with xpdf the errors
  Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph
  Error: Missing or bad Type3 CharProc entry
are reported (duplicated many times) and some characters are not rendered or are
shown incorrectly; the EPS file displays without error in gv.

Comment 1 Matt 2009-11-02 12:05:12 UTC

Created attachment 5610 [details]
f4.eps

Using ps2pdf on this file results in many of the text characters not rendering
and produces error messages when the PDF is viewed with xpdf.

Comment 2 Ralph Giles 2009-11-02 12:24:25 UTC

Confirmed with HEAD (r10257). After 'gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o f4.pdf f4.eps',
viewing f4.pdf with gs and evince, the labels on the bottom axis show only the
negative signs, and the 'r' from 'g-r' label on the left axis is missing.

Comment 3 Matt 2009-11-02 15:34:17 UTC

This problem was first noticed in connection with this paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2773
The PS version is fine but figure 2 on page 11 of the PDF is not rendered
correctly. The arXiv appears to be using an SVN version of gs tagged as 8.71.

It may be a coincidence, but it appears that text is never rendered after a
minus sign (among other things).

Comment 4 Ken Sharp 2009-11-03 00:57:07 UTC

Appears to be a duplicate of #690836.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 690836 ***