Bug 689001

Summary:	Characters lost converting PS to PDF
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Component:	PDF Writer	Assignee:	leonardo <leonardo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	askwar, sags5495
Priority:	P4
Version:	master
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	MacOS X
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	689001.ps

Description Marcos H. Woehrmann 2006-11-15 16:36:02 UTC

Converting the attached PDF file to PS via -sDEVICE=pdfwrite results in a PS file that is missing most (but 
not all) of the lowercase characters.  Both Ghostscript and Apple Preview open the resulting PS file in the 
same way, so I believe the error to be in the pdfwrite device

Comment 1 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2006-11-15 16:46:20 UTC

*** Bug 688989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2006-11-15 16:50:18 UTC

Created attachment 2617 [details]
689001.ps

In the initial description of the bug please replace "PDF file to PS" with "PS
file to PDF" and "resulting PS file" with "resulting PDF file".

Comment 3 SaGS 2007-03-11 16:06:51 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 4 leonardo 2007-04-01 13:56:32 UTC


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