lately, some pdf files are showing square boxes instead of chars. Those same files fail in exactly the same way with gpdf, but are shown correctly by ggv. Versions: app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r8 app-text/xpdf-3.00-r7 app-text/gpdf-2.8.1-r1 I tried to test ghostscript-afpl, but it dumps core and fails on almost every operation, so it is unusable (different problem) emerge info $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r12 (default-ppc-2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 ppc 7455, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 3 2005, 19:13:43)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.3-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache distlocks" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib accessibility adns alsa altivec apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr cjk crypt cups curl directfb dvd dvdr emacs esd f77 fbcon flac fortran gcj gdbm gif gnome gnome-libs gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl idea imlib ipv6 ithreads jabber java jpeg jython lcms ldap mad maildir mono motif mozcalendar mozilla mozsvg mpeg mplayer mysql nas nls nptl oggvorbis opengl opie pam pcre perl pic png postgres ppc python qt radeon readline rhino ruby samba sdl server sheep slang smime spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l2 vnc wxwindows xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xprint xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib video_cards_radeon" Unset: LDFLAGS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. call xpdf or gpdf on the given URL 2. look at the broken letters 3. look at it with ggv and it works Actual Results: xpdf and gpdf give garbled output ggv give correct output Expected Results: all three programs should give the same output (module the ghostscript version) workaround: use ggv when the output is garbled.
don't think it's related to ghotscript, please try earlier xpdf versions
both kpdf and gpdf show it fine here, so it's a bug in xpdf. xpdf is not actively maintained, so please use one of ggv,gpdf or kpdf
