Bug 147076

Summary:	app-text/ghostscript-gpl, ps2pdf does not work at all
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Williamson <mswilliamson>
Component:	[OLD] Printing	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	major	CC:	rossi.f
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	google.pdf - after running pdf2ps on google.ca google.ps, input file for ps2pdf

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.