Re: Problem with accents on freebsd but not on windows

>We have pdf documents where fonts are embedded into them that do not render correctly (Some accents are missing) when using GS On  freebsd.
>If we take the same pdf and use GS on windows instead, all accents are fine.
The document uses some fonts that are not embedded, so the results depend on the local fonts available on the system where you run gs.
See the "Loading" comments from gs and the list of non-embedded fonts from pdffonts (a utility in the poppler package).
On Fedora 20, I see the accented characters with gs9.16 built from source but not with gs9.14 provided by Fedora.
On Fedora 20, "sudo yum provides '*/NimbusMon*'" does not find anything, so maybe FreeBSD and Fedora intentionally do not provide fonts.
You should probably remake the PDF to embed all fonts if you want to ensure that it looks the same everywhere.
$ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=nullpage bad.pdf -c quit
GPL Ghostscript 9.16 (2015-03-30)
Copyright (C) 2015 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 6.
Page 1
Loading NimbusMon-Bol font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusMon-Bol... 7116316 5570018 4569384 3147374 3 done.
Loading Dingbats font from %rom%Resource/Font/Dingbats... 7213092 5676068 4609768 3192762 3 done.
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Loading NimbusRom-Reg font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusRom-Reg... 9506764 7919390 9330800 7896573 3 done.
$ /usr/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=nullpage bad.pdf -c quit
GPL Ghostscript 9.14 (2014-03-26)
Copyright (C) 2014 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 6.
Page 1
Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.14/Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Bold.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusMonL-Bold.
Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.14/Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Bold.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusMonL-Bold.
Querying operating system for font files...
Loading NimbusMonL-Bold font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022004l.pfb... 4308956 2519126 5601312 2685609 3 done.
Loading Dingbats font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/d050000l.pfb... 4308588 2589843 5601312 2621265 3 done.
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 4536004 2758545 4208616 2524121 3 done.
$ pdffonts bad.pdf 
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
NEPNIA+Frutiger-Cn                   Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes    150  0
NEPNIB+Frutiger-BoldCn               Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes    149  0
NEPNJC+Frutiger-BlackCn              Type 1C           Custom           yes yes yes    151  0
NEPNGP+Wingdings                     CID TrueType      Identity-H       yes yes no     147  0
NEPNJD+Wingdings                     TrueType          WinAnsi          yes yes no     148  0
Courier-Bold                         Type 1            Custom           no  no  no      10  0
ZapfDingbats                         Type 1            ZapfDingbats     no  no  no     397  0
Times-Roman                          Type 1            Custom           no  no  no      71  0




From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:27:14 +0000
Subject: [gs-devel] Problem with accents on freebsd but not on windows









Hi,
 
I’m writing here hoping someone will be able to help me with a problem we have using gs to convert pdf documents to png.
 
We have pdf documents where fonts are embedded into them that do not render correctly (Some accents are missing) when using GS On  freebsd.

If we take the same pdf and use GS on windows instead, all accents are fine.
 
Strangely, other documents have accents fine on FreeBSD so it seems somewhat related to the specific font used in the document. But the same font works on windows… Total mystery to me
L
 
If we open the document in Adobe Reader on windows, everything is fine.
If we convert the document to png using Xpdf on FreeBSD, instead of Gs on freeBSD, accents are fine
 
We tried playing with the fontmap, but from what I understood, if the font is embedded the fontmap is of no use ?
 
I enclosed a copy of the problematic file (see bad.pdf)
 
and the example of the accent problem that we have only on freebsd (see capture.jpg)
I highlighted in yellow the missing accents from page 1.
Also, I circled in red other accents that are working which makes me suspect the problem comes from the font itself, but just on freebsd not windows build…
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Regards
 
 
 
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ian Lord
MSD Informatique
143 Rue des Fauvettes
St-Colomban (Québec) J5K 0E2
Tél: (514) 776-6734 #201
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