[pdftex] "Linearized hint data" problem

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:24, Jennifer Howlett wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 August 2003 04:25 am, Jennifer Howlett wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >

> > > Does anyone know the actual cause of the problem? Is there
> > > something wrong with Ghostscript's optimizer? Would the problem
> > > persist if my colleague could be persuaded to use pdftex
> > > originally, and only use ghostscript at the optimizing stage?
> > >
> > >> Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Bob Howlett

What is Ghostscript's role in all this? I am not familiar with "optimizing"
using Ghostscript.  Does theproblem occur if the pdflatex output is
viewed in Acrobat Reader?