Re: [Groff] OT [= Old Thread ..!]: PDF problems - see attached f

[Ted Harding]

On 28-Sep-03 Ted Harding wrote:
> > The following comparison between the PDF fonts (as shown by Document
> Properties) may be of interest, and certainly puzzles me as to how an
> apparently simple change in the -call to gs with output-device =
> pdfwrite in both cases can make such a difference:

I think I have found where it is coming from.

The command generated by the script "ps2pdf temp.ps" is in fact

exec gs -dSAFER -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
         -sOutputFile=temp.pdf -dSAFER -c .setpdfwrite \
         -f temp.ps

I don't know what ".setpdfwrite" is, but I tried an experiment
which simply omitted it.

Result:
  With .setpdfwrite, bad output.
  Without .setpdfwrite, good output.

Hmmm.
Best wishes,
Ted.

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Date: 29-Sep-03                                       Time: 08:01:51
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