| Summary: | mojibake character support | ||
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| Product: | Ghostscript | Reporter: | Jack Moffitt <jack> |
| Component: | Other Driver | Assignee: | Ray Johnston <ray.johnston> |
| Status: | NOTIFIED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | htl10 |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Version: | 0.00 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Customer: | 590 | Word Size: | --- |
| Attachments: |
Japanese_text_win.ps
screen grab, using platform (X11) font. screen grab, ghostscript loading the MS fonts enhanced cidmap the closing quote mark, is wrong |
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Created attachment 1408 [details]
Japanese_text_win.ps
(Just being nosey...) Both the summary and the bug reports are a bit mis-worded. The symptom reported is quite typical of font substution problems - when there is no suitable CID font to use at all, an unsuitable one get picked. I had a look at the postscript file, and it seems that it requires MS Mincho and MS Gothic, which are either not embedded or mis-embedded. Those two fonts come with Japanese version of Windows, and also with english version of Windows if any of these are true: (1) one has opted for the optional japanese support for IE, in any version of english windows. (2) one has opted for the optional far-east language support in XP/2003. (it is built-in, but requires "switching-on", in the control panel). Created attachment 1438 [details] screen grab, using platform (X11) font. I have some japanese fonts under in my X server, ghostscript seems to use them, but emit some irrelevant/confusing messages about Courier: =================================== gs -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=x11alpha bugs.ghostscript.com/attachment.cgi\?id=1408\&action=view AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18) Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.51/Resource/Font/MS-PMincho-90ms-RKSJ-H. Can't find (or can't open) font file MS-PMincho-90ms-RKSJ-H. Querying operating system for font files... Didn't find this font on the system! Substituting font Courier for MS-PMincho-90ms-RKSJ-H. Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 2260352 932192 2481380 956954 3 done. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.51/Resource/Font/MS-PGothic-90ms-RKSJ-V. Can't find (or can't open) font file MS-PGothic-90ms-RKSJ-V. Didn't find this font on the system! Substituting font Courier for MS-PGothic-90ms-RKSJ-V. Loading a TT font from /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/msgothic.ttc to emulate a CID font MS-Gothic ... Done. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.51/Resource/Font/MS-Mincho-90ms-RKSJ-H. Can't find (or can't open) font file MS-Mincho-90ms-RKSJ-H. Didn't find this font on the system! Substituting font Courier for MS-Mincho-90ms-RKSJ-H. >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< ======================================= Created attachment 1439 [details] screen grab, ghostscript loading the MS fonts I edited lib/cidmap to get ghostscript to load the MS fonts directly: (cidmap file to follow) ============= gs -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=x11alpha bugs.ghostscript.com/attachment.cgi\?id=1408\&action=view AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18) Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Loading a TT font from /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/msmincho.ttc to emulate a CID font MS-PMincho ... Done. Loading a TT font from /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/msgothic.ttc to emulate a CID font MS-PGothic ... Done. Loading a TT font from /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/msgothic.ttc to emulate a CID font MS-Gothic ... Done. Loading a TT font from /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/msmincho.ttc to emulate a CID font MS-Mincho ... Done. >>showpage, press <return> to continue<< ================ Created attachment 1440 [details]
enhanced cidmap
These mapping are correct, to my knowledge:
MS-Gothic = msgothic.ttc SubfontID 0
MS-PGothic = msgothic.ttc SubfontID 1
MS-Mincho = msmincho.ttc SubfontID 0
MS-PMincho = msmincho.ttc SubfontID 1
The supplment number (2) depends a bit on the age/version of
the font from Microsoft, but the problem is not sensitive
to this number, I think.
Here is what I think: the reported problem is a mis-understanding/mis-configuration. The EPS file can only be displayed/rendered if either those two fonts are available, or ghostscript is configured to find a suitable substitute, rather than randomly pick one. So the recommended way is the two mentioned in comment 2 (i.e. opt for IE's japanese support, or switch on FarEast support in control panel if using english XP/2003), or copy those two font files from the Japanese installation into the English installation by hand. Or, configure ghostscript to subsitute with a suitable font (example in attachment "enhanced cidmap"). Created attachment 1441 [details] the closing quote mark, is wrong Incidentally there is a problem with rendering the quote marks when writing vertically, in the case of gs loading the MS fonts. When in vertical writing, the quote marks are rendered not rotated (attachment 1438 [details] is correct); this is a crop from attachment 1439 [details] of the closing quote mark. The opening one is also wrong, in the 2nd vertical line from left., 6th character from bottom. In japanese, it is customory to do quotes like: |^ xxxxx _| - in horizontal writing (right half of top horizontal line), but rotates the quotes like this: - | x x x | ^ when in writing vertically. (i.e. 1438 is the desired look, 1439 is not, if one compares the left two vertical lines carefully). This custom feature development is no longer needed by this customer (no new development) |
Bug 87760 - Importing double byte characters correctly from EPS requires booting in Japanese EPS files with J text import correctly only if the system is booted in Japanese. Reproduction requires system booted in non-Japanese language: 1. Go to > File > Import > Import to Stage... 2. Select the EPS file in the bug fodler 3. Click on Import 4. Click on OK in Import dialog Actual Results: Double byte characters are mojibake. Expected Results: No characters are mojibake. Bug 66856 - All double byte characters are mojibaked as imported from EPS WITH Font Information If the "Include Font Information" checkbox is checked in Illustrator when the EPS file is written, all double byte text is mojibake after importing (See #87748 for the case of the option turned off). Reproduction: 1. Go to > File > Import > Import to Stage... 2. Select the EPS file in the bug fodler 3. Click on Import 4. Click on OK in Import dialog Actual Results: All the characters in EPS file are mojibaked Expected Results: All the characters are displayed without mojibake.