Bug 687106

Summary:	gs8 PDF unprintable with Acrobat3
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	cilantro04
Component:	PDF Writer	Assignee:	Jack Moffitt <jack>
Status:	NOTIFIED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P4
Version:	8.11
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://home.comcast.net/~cilantro03/gs8
Customer:		Word Size:	---

Description cilantro04 2003-10-26 22:21:13 UTC

A PDF 1.2 file produced from TeX using embedded fonts and gs 8.11 under Linux on
an x86 machine displays correctly with all versions of Acrobat, but prints
correctly only with Acrobat 4 or later.  Interestingly, the same PS file run
through gs 8.00 on another machine (Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris 8) does not have
this problem.  One obvious difference: this latter PDF file renames the TeX
fonts, such as CMR10, to names such as Fa.

The URL above contains the original PS file, both PDF files, and the result of
running the gs 8.11 PDF file through different versions of Acrobat.

I have labeled this bug as minor, both because Acrobat 3 is obsolete and because
the different behavior on different installations suggests a configuration
problem.  Nonetheless, I am hesitant to post such PDF files online without being
sure the fonts are embedded correctly.

Comment 1 Igor Melichev 2003-10-26 23:35:11 UTC

The bug 687047 may be related to this problem.

Comment 2 cilantro04 2003-10-27 19:39:49 UTC

I should have added that gs 8.00 produces the same (buggy) behavior on the Linux
machine; this is not (just) an 8.00 vs. 8.11 problem.

Comment 3 Jack Moffitt 2003-10-29 09:54:24 UTC

We've observed a lot of problems in the past with Acrobat 3.

Comment 4 cilantro04 2003-11-02 15:03:53 UTC

This may indeed be an Acrobat3 problem, but it still worries me that a single
PS file converted to PDF using gs 8 on two different machines produces one PDF
1.2 file which works with Acrobat 3 and one PDF 1.2 file which is buggy with
Acrobat3.