Bug 136580

Summary:	Ghostscript, ps2pdf produces ugly pdf, same problem when printing from kde to pdf
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	gmud <geroxp>
Component:	[OLD] Printing	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	PDF made with gs8 PDF made with gs7 Postscript for conversion

Description gmud 2006-06-12 13:56:35 UTC

When using ps2pdf or gs directly or through kde print to pdf dialog ugly pdfs are generated. The letters are "jumping" up and down. This problem is valid for 
app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1_p20060430 and ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r10 as well as the gnu version. The following command was used to convert postscript to pdf:
gs -dNOPLATFONTS -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf -dSAFER -c .setpdfwrite -f 
pdfproblem.ps

I have attached the three files (ps and pdfs).

I don't know if it is an upstream problem or gentoo specific (patches or so).

Comment 1 gmud 2006-06-12 13:58:56 UTC

Created attachment 88999 [details]
PDF made with gs8

Comment 2 gmud 2006-06-12 14:00:01 UTC

Created attachment 89000 [details]
PDF made with gs7

Comment 3 gmud 2006-06-12 14:01:34 UTC

Created attachment 89001 [details]
Postscript for conversion

Comment 4 gmud 2006-10-10 02:11:57 UTC

It's not a ghostscript bug:

see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210256