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

[George N. White III]

On 6/29/07, Thanh Han The <hanthethanh at gmail.com> wrote:

I have seen this before.  Bug 687824 seems to be related (default
versions of missing procedures are defined but when used you get the
warning).

I don't see the messages in current gs versions, but many distros
seem to have stalled at 8.14 or 8.15, so I have filed bug report #689314.
If you use a distro that has the old versions, file bug reports.

Other sitings of the problem:

<http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-May/017624.html>!


> with the minimal test file:
>
> ,--------
> | \font\f=bchb8y\f
> | Hello
> | \bye
> `--------
>
> the pdf produced by pdftex (1.40.3) and dvipdfm (0.13.2c)
> seems to make gs (AFPL Ghostscript 8.53 (2005-10-20) on debian linux)
> unhappy:

Using the same versions, I don't see a problem with the merged esp+gpl gs, but
I do get the error with ESP gs-8.15 (as provided by Fedora 7).

$ gs t2.pdf
GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.60 (2007-05-12)
Copyright (C) 2007 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
%%BoundingBox: 92 55 308 718
%%HiResBoundingBox: 92.123997 55.277998 307.691991 717.407978

> ,--------
> |    **** Embedded font uses undefined procedure(s):  ND 5 times, RD 209 times,
> |
> |    **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
> |    **** The file was produced by:
> |    **** >>>> dvipdfm 0.13.2c, Copyright � 1998, by Mark A. Wicks <<<<
> |    (or **** >>>> pdfTeX-1.40.3 <<<< in case of pdftex)
> |    **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
> |    **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
> |    **** specification.
> `--------
>
> the same error with gs-esp (8.15)
>
> when extracting the font from the pdf, it seems to be quite ok, ND and RD are
> defined there and t1lint didn't report anything.
>
> Can it be a problem of gs?

I also tried your From:
http://fs02n2.sendspace.com/download/lite/9618c93247e185df30261f0b34b816b5/46864161/yaids6/47ee257959d85f73ed35e3880c95fdc8/ZSIKc3JQaXIPK1o+YBd7G3NNVDt0ZE8fXW8fSTBCPmF7fVM7/f.pdf

Did you mean this to be the pdftex output?

[gwhite at cerberus t2]$ pdfinfo f.pdf
Creator:        TeX
Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.3
CreationDate:   Fri Jun 29 11:20:03 2007
ModDate:        Fri Jun 29 11:20:03 2007
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
File size:      7260 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4
[gwhite at cerberus t2]$ pdfinfo t2.pdf
Creator:         TeX output 2007.06.30:0837
Producer:       dvipdfm 0.13.2c, Copyright (c) 1998, by Mark A. Wicks
CreationDate:   Sat Jun 30 08:38:34 2007
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      21923 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.2


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