[CLUE-Tech] Ghostscript issues..

[Adam Bultman]

Excellent questions, and alas, I've solved the issue. But:

1.  I tried both the Alladin and the Gnu versions.
2.  I tried 8.0, 7.05, 7.03, and I think one more.
3.  I made sure to have the correct fonts installed.  

None of them would work.  A specific template file (ps) would cause 
problems, but not other pdfs using the very same font.  

The reason I used ps files to pdf is this: I didn't create the system.  
The system pre-dated me, and the reason that it was pstemplate -> c++
program to substitute items -> ps2pdf -> etc was because the system admin,
putting together apache from RPMs, couldn't get it to work using PHPs pdf
creating ability. And now it's too late to fix that. Funny.  So, they
spent hours and hours creating the cockamamie system that has so many
points of failure, it's not funny. Oh, and another one: Gifs are created 
and incorporated into the .ps file.

So.  The issue became a non-issue when I figured 'well, if the old version 
worked on the other server I'll try it on this one'.  So, I compiled , 
installed, and copied fonts over, and whoo! It works.  At this point, I'm 
glad to not be getting any more calls, so for the time being, I'll leave 
it at that.   This is one of the many items I've been cleaning up over the 
past year, and I'm glad to have this done, too.  

thanks for the info, but I don't know when I'll feel up to tacking this 
one again...


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adamb at glaven.org
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 mgushee at havenrock.com wrote:

> On 21 Jan 2003 at 17:07, Lynn Danielson wrote:
> 
> > I've used Ghostscript quite a lot for pdf conversion and I've never
> > seen this problem.  One question, if you're using Alladin Ghostscript
> > (not GNU) and recompiling from scratch, why not use the latest 8.0
> > version?  I wouldn't really expect upgrading to 8.0 to fix this
> > problem, but it wouldn't hurt to try it.  You're sure your using the
> > same Fontmap file in both instances?
> 
> I think Lynn's pointing in the right direction here. I can't recall if I've ever dealt with 
> this kind of issue in Ghostscript, but I definitely have with TeX, and the usually 
> cause for missing characters is a font encoding mismatch.
> 
> Are you getting exactly the same errors with all documents? With all fonts? Or are 
> you getting similar-but-not-identical errors? Or is it happening with some documents 
> and not others?
> 
> By the way: I suppose you have your reasons, and they may be very good ones, but 
> offhand it seems like you're making life hard for yourself by starting with PostScript 
> source documents. Either TeX or SGML sources would have advantages for 
> portability and content management, and would be easier to generate 
> programmatically. But you probably know that.
> 
> --
> Matt Gushee
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