Re: converting XFA PDFs using ghostscript - problem with encoding?

Hi Ken,

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 10:56:48AM +0100, Ken Sharp wrote:
> At 11:50 07/09/2017 +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> 
> >I got good tip from kind soul that I can use ghostscript to render XFA
> >PDF into normal one using something like
> 
> The kind soul is incorrect, Ghostscript does not handle XFA.
well, but it seems to work somehow, at least I can see the content
now, even though encoding is not correct :)


> 
> 
> >ps2pdf -dShowAcroForm odmeny.pdf odmeny2.pdf
> 
> AcroForms are *not* XFA. XFA forms are written in XML, AcroForms are
> genuine PDF constructs.
> 
> 
> >Would somebody have a tip on how could I fix that last remaining issue?
> 
> Without seeing the original PDF file ? no.

sorry, I forgot to attach link to sample document:

http://nik.lbox.cz/download/odmeny.pdf

in the meantime, I installed pdf  editor and examined source and produced
file in more detail (as well as with pdffont) and seems that after all, problem
can be in fonts:


root@apostclient:/tmp/pp2 # pdffonts odmeny2.pdf 
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
JNUFFB+MyriadPro-Regular             CID Type 0C       Identity-H       yes yes yes     13  0
DTVGDH+ArialMT                       CID TrueType      Identity-H       yes yes yes      9  0
Helvetica                            Type 1            Custom           no  no  no      20  0
IVUYJI+MyriadPro-Regular             Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no      16  0

this is the gs produced pdf. examining file in pdf editor shows that problematic part is the one
with Helvetica font, with "Custom" encoding.. however how to proceed with this information,
I don't know yet :)

BR

nik

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>                     Ken
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