Re: Weirdness with PDF conversion application.

Unfortunately, I have no more information. I was having trouble printing
a PDF from Scribus and ran across that as a possible issue. It turned
out to be something else, so I didn't research the PS issue any further.

Alex

Ryan Pavlik wrote:

> That's a good idea, but it's not just PDF printing (PDF is just an
> easy way to share the test results, easier than scanning printed
> output). Printing to regular old (i.e. PCL LaserJet 4si) printers
> does this too. I don't know how much PS is used in Abi's win printing
> module, it might be something to look into. Do you have any more
> information on this problem?
>
> Alex Roston wrote:
>
>>
>> This issue may also relate to a Postscript problem I have recently
>> read about. Apparently sometimes a PDF which uses Postscript 3 tries
>> to give instructions to a Postscript 2 printer. I've heard that you
>> can sometimes fix the problem by printing the PDF as a Postscript 2
>> document, but I haven't tried this for myself. Can someone prove or
>> disprove this?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> Jonathan Rhoads wrote:
>>
>>> Bug report submitted.
>>> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6827. See message
>>> from Ryan, below.
>>>
>>> I have voted for the bug.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ryan Pavlik [mailto:abiryan@ryand.net]
>>> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 5:34 PM
>>> To: Jonathan Rhoads
>>> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
>>> Subject: Re: Weirdness with PDF conversion application.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I think the character changing was a problem with the other PDF
>>> creating program.
>>> The font problem, however is bug 6827 in bugzilla.abisource.com ...
>>> Please sign up and vote for it, or if you have the coding skills and
>>> knowledge, try to fix it! The team is lacking in good Windows
>>> coders who are familiar with printing.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owner-abiword-user@abisource.com
>>>> [mailto:owner-abiword-user@abisource.com]On Behalf Of Jonathan Rhoads
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 8:47 AM
>>>> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>>>> Subject: RE: Weirdness with PDF conversion application.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I use PDF995 (freely available download). I just PDF'd an the
>>>> lowercase
>>>>
>>>> a
>>>> b
>>>> c
>>>> d
>>>>
>>>> document, and it worked fine. I am also on abiword 2.1.3, but
>>>> Win2K. If you want me to test with one of your documents, email it
>>>> me direct.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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Received on Wed Jun 23 05:43:37 2004