[OS X TeX] OT: eps2eps and fonts

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.07.2005 um 02:14 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> Adobe Illustrator(480,0xa000ef98) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a 
> pointer not malloced: 0x139f7ea8; This could be a double free(), or 
> free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting 
> environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug

Allô Bruno!

The error above is obviously a bug in AI -- you should report it to 
Adobe!

>
> That works to extent that the preprocessed file is indeed opened by 
> Illustrator; however, it seems the PS font (Courier) included in the 
> original EPS file has been bitmapped by eps2eps. Is there a way to 
> avoid this?
>

Probably you need to take a few steps: determine the actual fonts the 
EPS file uses, determine the PFA or PFB font files, convert them to 
usual flat files, put the converts or symlinks to the already flat 
files into .../ghostscript/fonts, and add to Ghostscript's Fontmap file 
Fontmap.GS entries like:

/Math1                                  (Math1.pfb)     ;
/Math1-Bold                             (Math1Bol.pfb)  ;
/Math1Mono                              (Math1Mon.pfb)  ;
/Math1Mono-Bold                         (Math1MonBol.pfb)       ;

The first column contains the PS font name as used in the file, the 
second one contains the font file containing it.

I presume gs/eps2eps could not find the PostScript font files so they 
were substituted by the ugly.gsf font ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

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      - Donald E. Knuth, 2001-10-02 in Tübingen.

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