Bug 690166 - extra space after apostrophe when distilled
Summary: extra space after apostrophe when distilled
Status: NOTIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ghostscript
Classification: Unclassified
Component: PDF Writer (show other bugs)
Version: 8.63
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P2 normal
Assignee: Ken Sharp
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Reported: 2008-11-11 11:48 UTC by Mark DeVries
Modified: 2008-12-19 08:31 UTC (History)
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apostrophes.ps (43.61 KB, application/postscript)
2008-11-11 11:50 UTC, Mark DeVries 		Details
apostrophes-863-bad.pdf (10.89 KB, application/pdf)
2008-11-11 11:51 UTC, Mark DeVries 		Details
apostrophes-850-good.pdf (106.05 KB, application/pdf)
2008-11-11 11:51 UTC, Mark DeVries 		Details
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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