Bug 693197

Summary: ps2write outputs Type 1 fonts in pfb format
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: Chris Liddell (chrisl) <chris.liddell>
Component: PS WriterAssignee: Ken Sharp <ken.sharp>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P4    
Version: master   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Customer: Word Size: ---
Attachments: Example file
tentatively proposed patch

Description Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2012-07-19 16:43:13 UTC 
ps2write outputs Type 1 fonts in the binary pfb format, then ASCII85 encodes the binary data.

There are printers "out there" that can only cope with the ASCII pfa Type 1 format, see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/1025061

Attached PDF, converted through ps2write illustrates the issue.
Comment 1 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2012-07-19 16:43:45 UTC 
Created attachment 8772 [details]
Example file
Comment 2 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2012-07-19 16:44:47 UTC 
Created attachment 8773 [details]
tentatively proposed patch
Comment 3 Ken Sharp 2012-07-20 09:30:55 UTC 
Fixed in commit 01dc18e8418fc44a993840f0aeaf741929c1921a

by adopting the patch (mostly).