Re: [Groff] OT [= Old Thread ..!]: PDF problems - see attached f

[Ted Harding]

On 28-Sep-03 Ted Harding wrote:
> On 28-Sep-03 Bernhard Fisseni wrote:
>> 
>> For me, the problem was solved when I used epstopdf (a gs wrapper
>> script by Sebastian Rahtz distributed e.g. with teTeX) with gs 7;
> 
> Thanks! I had not thought of going down this line, and it does seem
> to solve the problem (at any rate for what I tried it with).

Very interesting ... I have converted a PS file to PDF using standard
ps2pdf and your suggestion of epstopdf.

The ps2pdf conversion gave bad output; the epstopdf conversion on exactly
the same file (produced by groff) had no faults. The following comparison
between the PDF fonts (as shown by Document Properties) may be of
interest, and certainly puzzles me as to how an apparenly simple change
in the -call to gs with output-device = pdfwrite in both cases can make
such a difference:

1. Using ps2pdf (bad output)
============================
OriginalFont    Type    Encoding  UsedFont                  Type
------------------------------------------------------------------
Times-Bold      Type 1  Standard  TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT    Type 1
Times-Roman     Type 1  Custom    TimesNewRomanPSMT         Type 1
Times-Italic    Type 1  Standard  TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT  Type 1
Symbol-Slanted  Type 1  Built-in  Embedded Subset           Type 1
Symbol          Type 1  Built-in  Symbol                    Type 1
Times-Roman     Type 1  Standard  TimesNewRomanPSMT         Type 1
Courier         Type 1  Custom    Courier                   Type 1

2. Using epstopdf (good output)
===============================
OriginalFont    Type    Encoding  UsedFont                  Type
------------------------------------------------------------------
Times-Bold      Type 1  Standard  Embedded Subset           Type 1
address@hidden   Type 1  Built-in  Embedded Subset           Type 1
address@hidden  Type 1  Built-in  Embedded Subset           Type 1
address@hidden    Type 1  Built-in                                 
address@hidden  Type 1  Built-in                                 
address@hidden    Type 1  Built-in  Embedded Subset           Type 1
Symbol-Slanted  Type 1  Built-in  Embedded Subset           Type 1
Symbol          Type 1  Built-in  Embedded Subset           Type 1
address@hidden       Type 1  Built-in  Embedded Subset           Type 1


It would seem that it's indeed a font question. I'm just puzzled as
to how this comes about. But anyway, epstopdf does the trick!

Thanks, Bernhard! You've helped to get a somewhat urgent problem
out of the way.

All best wishes,
Ted.


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Date: 28-Sep-03                                       Time: 22:23:05
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