Re: pdfetex 1.40.1 + ghosscript problem? More findings

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Michal Kvasnicka wrote:
> Good evening.
>
> I found some more puzzling things. I write them here fore anybody who
> may be interested. :-)
>
> I tried to typeset a document using two font families: TrueType Gentium
> by SIL, and Adobe OpenType Myriad. First I converted Myriad to Type1
> using fontforge, then I prepared metrics for all fonts with TeXFont
> using ec-lm encoding. I found this:
>
> (1) Any ConTeXt document produced by pdfetex 1.40.1 (even this one:
>     \setupoutput[pdf]
>     \starttext
>     \input tufte
>     \stoptext
> makes my GhostScript (gs Ghostscript 8.15.3 under SuSE Linux 10.1) die
> with this error:
>    **** Warning:  An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
>    **** The file has been damaged.  This may have been caused
>    **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
>    **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
>    ERROR: /undefined in /BXlevel
> etc. However, if I make a ps-file out of it using AdobeReader, I can
> view/print it with my GhostScript.
> The newest Ghostscript (Ghostscript 8.54 (2006-05-17)) doesn't write
> this error message but the rest of problems (see below) is the same.
>
> (2) When I typeset my document only with the Gentium font, or only with
> the Myriad font, or with a combination of the Gentium and LatinModern,
> or the Gentium and TrueType version of Myriad (made fontforge), the
> outcome is the same as (1).
>
> (3) If I try to combine TrueType Gentium and Type1 Myriad, my
> GhostScript failes to view/print it properly: strange letters appear in
> the text.
>
> I've got no idea what's wrong. By the way, my input regime is now utf8.
>
> Do you thing this is problem of ConTeXt, or pdfetex, or GhostScript?
> Whom should I tell it?
>
>   
probably a gs problem ... 8.15 is pretty old; versions 8.30+ *we now have 8/54) are better with pdf 

Hans 


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