Bug 689314

Summary: bogus messages: Embedded font uses undefined procedure RD for Bitstream Charter
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: George N. White III <aa056>
Component: PDF InterpreterAssignee: Default assignee <ghostpdl-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor    
Priority: P4    
Version: 8.15   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://chebucto.ns.ca/~aa056/t2.pdf
Customer: Word Size: ---
Attachments: pdf file using Bitstream Charter Bold "A"

Description George N. White III 2007-06-30 08:15:37 UTC 
This problem crops up for various applications, but most recently was 
encountered by the author of pdftex.  It seems to be fixed in recent 
versions, but many linux distros (even Fedora 7) still provide older
versions so in practice many users are stuck with the problem.

Using etex+dvipdfm from TeX LIve 2007 to create a .pdf file on Fedora 7 linux:
$ cat t2.tex\nopagenumbers
\font\f=bchb8y\f
A
\bye
$ etex t2
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./t2.tex [1] )
Output written on t2.dvi (1 page, 204 bytes).
Transcript written on t2.log.
$ dvipdfm t2

t2.dvi -> t2.pdf
[1]
16224 bytes written
$ pdffonts t2.pdfname                                 type         emb sub uni 
object ID
------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
HZFXHS+CharterBT-Bold                Type 1       yes yes no      10  0
$ pdfinfo t2.pdf
Creator:         TeX output 2007.06.30:1205
Producer:       dvipdfm 0.13.2c, Copyright © 1998, by Mark A. Wicks
CreationDate:   Sat Jun 30 12:06:27 2007
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      16224 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.2

$ /usr/bin/gsx t2.pdf
ESP Ghostscript 815.04 (2007-03-14)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
   **** Embedded font uses undefined procedure RD
   [..]

The file displays correctly.  Newer versions (e.g., gs-8.60) and other pdf 
viewers do not complain, so this seems to be a bug in ghostscript.
Comment 1 George N. White III 2007-06-30 09:21:12 UTC 
Created attachment 3101 [details]
pdf file using Bitstream Charter Bold "A"

TeX source:

\nopagenumbers
\font\f=bchb8y\f
A
\bye
Comment 2 Alex Cherepanov 2007-06-30 10:26:36 UTC 
I confirm that this was a bug in Ghostscript, although the font deserves
special mentioning for writing its own procedures to userdict.

The bug has been fixed in revision 6445. This revision went into v. 8.54 and up.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 688464 ***