Bug 688954

Summary:	Text disappears when converting some ps files with ps2pdf
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Jani-Matti Hätinen <jani-matti.hatinen>
Component:	PDF Writer	Assignee:	leonardo <leonardo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	htl10, sags5495
Priority:	P4
Version:	8.54
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	First test case Second test case

Description Jani-Matti Hätinen 2006-10-24 04:47:47 UTC

When converting the attached PostScript files to PDF with ps2pdf from 
GhostScript-8.54, most of the text disappears.

Comment 1 Jani-Matti Hätinen 2006-10-24 04:48:37 UTC

Created attachment 2549 [details]
First test case

Comment 2 Jani-Matti Hätinen 2006-10-24 04:49:11 UTC

Created attachment 2550 [details]
Second test case

Comment 3 Alex Cherepanov 2006-10-24 16:47:24 UTC

Confirmed in the current development version.

Comment 4 Hin-Tak Leung 2007-01-22 08:24:47 UTC

There are a few others, such as bug 688639 ,  and bug 689001 which may be related?

Comment 5 Hin-Tak Leung 2007-01-22 08:27:04 UTC

BEcause ESP 8.15.3 on x86_64 (fc6) seems to do the conversion without losing text.

Comment 6 SaGS 2007-03-11 16:05:29 UTC

I found this to caused by Type 0 fonts with Type 3 descendents, a 
cause common to all the following:

    Bug #688639 "pdfwrite: a composite font with a Type 3 descendent 
                 and FMapType 2"
    Bug #688760 "ps2pdf loses text in postscript figure when 
                 converted to pdf"
    Bug #688954 "Text disappears when converting some ps files
                 with ps2pdf"
    Bug #689001 "Characters lost converting PS to PDF"
    Bug #689041 "Japanese Font Display Problem is ps2pdf"
    Bug #689105 "Invalid fonts error during converting from PS to PDF"

For a fix, please see bug #688639 comment #13. I suggest to close 
this bug as a duplicate of bug #688639.

Comment 7 leonardo 2007-04-01 13:56:14 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 688639 ***