When converting a ps/pdf file to pdf using either ps2pdf* or gs, italic fonts are lost (ps2pdf* are just frontend for gs). After googling about it, it seems that the reason is that gs doens't find those (some?) italic fonts, and hence substitute it. Extract from output is ---------------------------------------------------------------- Substituting font Times-Roman for Times New Roman,Italic. Substituting font Times-Bold for Times New Roman,BoldItalic. ---------------------------------------------------------------- I've found this page with google : http://old.nabble.com/Ghostscript-8.70-PDF-Italic-Fonts-td27881775.html And this indeed fixes my problem. Now, i have no idea what this is/means (funny how it is important that the ';' are on their own lines..). And I don't know if this is a packaging bug or upstream. Anyway, i think it should be important that the file installed by the gentoo ebuild contains those lines. Quite some people have the problem according to google (not only in gentoo). On my system (~amd64) the installed file i had to modify is : /usr/share/ghostscript/9.06/Resource/Init/Fontmap Reproducible: Always
Updated link http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2011-August/009020.html
copy/pasting the fix here for reference : add this to /usr/share/ghostscript/*/Resource/Init/Fontmap : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Times New Roman) /TimesNewRomanPSMT ; (Times New Roman Bold) /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT ; (Times New Roman,Italic) /TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT ; (Times New Roman,BoldItalic) /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------
(In reply to Thomas Capricelli from comment #2) > copy/pasting the fix here for reference : > > add this to /usr/share/ghostscript/*/Resource/Init/Fontmap : > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > (Times New Roman) /TimesNewRomanPSMT > ; > (Times New Roman Bold) /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT > ; > (Times New Roman,Italic) /TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT > ; > (Times New Roman,BoldItalic) /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT > ; > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm seeing a similar block at the end of the default fontmap, so I assume this is fixed. If not, please reopen or leave a message.
(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #3) > I'm seeing a similar block at the end of the default fontmap, so I assume > this is fixed. If not, please reopen or leave a message. For reference, Andreas means at the end of : /usr/share/ghostscript/*/Resource/Init/Fontmap.GS
