Bug 688967

Summary:	Problem with converting PS file with barcode font to PDF
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Component:	PDF Writer	Assignee:	leonardo <leonardo>
Status:	NOTIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1
Version:	8.54
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Customer:	1110	Word Size:	---
Attachments:	screenshot.png test.ps patch.txt

Description Marcos H. Woehrmann 2006-11-01 17:03:48 UTC

Ghostcript converts the attached PostScript to PDF incorrectly; specifically the barcodes are wrong.

I verified this by converting the file directly to ppm via Ghostscript:
gs -r300 -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=test1.ppm test.ps

And then to ppm via PDF:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf test.ps
gs -r300 -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=test2.ppm test.pdf

As you can tell from the attached screenshot.png there is a marked difference in the files (I converted 
the ppm files to tiff to make it easier to view using Preview).

The problem was originally listed as bug 688953, but I've closed that bug since I believe the comments 
were incorrect.  

Head exhibits the same behaviour as 8.54.

Comment 1 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2006-11-01 17:08:01 UTC

*** Bug 688968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2006-11-01 18:31:32 UTC

Created attachment 2571 [details]
screenshot.png

Comment 3 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2006-11-01 18:32:37 UTC

Created attachment 2572 [details]
test.ps

Comment 4 leonardo 2006-11-26 10:42:49 UTC

Created attachment 2634 [details]
patch.txt

A patch candidate to be tested soom.

Comment 5 leonardo 2006-11-26 23:31:05 UTC

The patch caused a regression, so it shoudn't se delivered to the customer.

Comment 6 leonardo 2006-11-27 15:26:00 UTC

Patch to HEAD :
http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2006-November/006990.html

Comment 7 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2006-11-27 18:05:01 UTC

Leonardo' s patch also works with 8.54, which is what the customer is using, so no need for a separate 
patch.