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Bug 147076 - app-text/ghostscript-gpl, ps2pdf does not work at all
Summary: app-text/ghostscript-gpl, ps2pdf does not work at all
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Printing (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major
Assignee: Printing Team
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Reported: 2006-09-10 09:27 UTC by Michael Williamson
Modified: 2007-09-22 15:08 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
google.pdf - after running pdf2ps on google.ca (google.pdf,27.14 KB, application/pdf)
2006-09-10 09:28 UTC, Michael Williamson
Details
google.ps, input file for ps2pdf (google.ps,79.97 KB, application/postscript)
2006-09-10 09:28 UTC, Michael Williamson
Details

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Description Michael Williamson 2006-09-10 09:27:37 UTC
ps2pdf seems to only print out the first character of each word. This breaks the Print to PDF feature in KDE. I will attach examples.
Comment 1 Michael Williamson 2006-09-10 09:28:18 UTC
Created attachment 96596 [details]
google.pdf - after running pdf2ps on google.ca
Comment 2 Michael Williamson 2006-09-10 09:28:40 UTC
Created attachment 96597 [details]
google.ps, input file for ps2pdf
Comment 3 Theo Baumgartner 2006-09-10 13:09:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> ps2pdf seems to only print out the first character of each word. This breaks
> the Print to PDF feature in KDE. I will attach examples.
> 

I can confirm that, same here.
Comment 4 Michael Williamson 2006-09-26 19:22:41 UTC
app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1_p20060430 works in some senses of the word. The output is usable but the text alignment is horrible. I don't think any two letters in the document line up.

I would like to install ghostscript-esp-7.07 because I have nice looking documents that I produced on a different machine with that version installed.
Comment 5 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-07 18:24:18 UTC
ghostscript versions have been updated all over the place. Please try if it happens still with the new ones. Also I suggest to report such bugs upstream.
Comment 6 Fabio Rossi 2007-09-22 09:30:25 UTC
It's not a problem of ghostscript, try to remove font embedding in qtconfig (Printer tab) as described in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235
Comment 7 Fabio Rossi 2007-09-22 15:08:10 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> It's not a problem of ghostscript, try to remove font embedding in qtconfig
> (Printer tab) as described in the following bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235

Sorry, it's really a problem of ghostscript.

Previously I tried with ghostscript-gpl-8.54, now I have just installed ghostscript-gpl-8.60 (see bug #187502 for an ebuild). Reenabling the font embedding with qtconfig and using KDE printing system I don't have anymore PDF rendering problems.