[tex-live] gs reports error: "Embedded font uses undefined procedure(s)"

Thanh Han The hanthethanh at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 15:12:04 CEST 2007


many thanks to all for testing. I was also looking at the
pdf and the font, but couldn't find anything that can be the
reason for the error.

For those who interested in further details, here is a quick
summary:

- this happens with Charter fonts only
- ps from dvips is ok
- it's not caused by truncating 512 trailing zeros in the
  type1 fonts (tried to put it back -- didn't help)
- it's not caused by the UniqueID (tried with bugfix774 --
  didn't help)
- the fonts as extracted from the ps (by dvips) and pdf (by
  pdftex) look identical (apart from the subset tag)

Thanh

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:30:58PM +0200, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
> > 2007/6/29, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> > > On Fre, 29 Jun 2007, Thanh Han The wrote:
> > > > http://www.sendspace.com/file/yaids6
> > >
> > > Ok, with gs-gpl
> > >         GPL Ghostscript 8.56 (2007-03-14)
> > > I get:
> > >         - no error message
> > >         - but TWO (2) pages on screen (with the same "Hello")
> > >         - after I press enter even a thrid one!
> > >
> > > With gs-esp
> > >         ESP Ghostscript 815.03 (2006-08-25)
> > > I get:
> > >         - first a lot of error messages:
> > >                 **** Embedded font uses undefined procedure RD
> > >         - then
> > >                 %%BoundingBox: 92 759 117 768
> > >                 %%HiResBoundingBox: 92.141997 759.833977 116.225996 767.285977
> > >         - but no output
> > >         - pressing "Enter" gives me your error message.
> > >
> > I have AFPL Ghostscript 8.14 in OS/2, it does not any error message.
>
> the file from sendspace shows ok here with gs 8.60:
>
> $ gs f.pdf
> GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.60 (2007-05-12)
> Copyright (C) 2007 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Processing pages 1 through 1.
> Page 1
> >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
>
> Regards, Hartmut


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