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Bug#721137: ghostscript: ps2pdf produces bad pdf on x86_64 (unreadeable text)



Quoting whoami314@free.fr (2013-09-17 16:57:20)
> Hello again,
> 
> I took a few minutes to minimize my own example of unreadable pdf.
> I ended with a quite bare test.tex:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \begin{document}
> Bla Bla Bla
> \end{document}
> 
> Please find attached this file, plus the corresponding test.ps
> obtained via "latex test && dvips test.dvi" and the test.pdf produced
> by "ps2pdf test.ps".
> 
> As previously, evince doesn't display correctly the text of this test.pdf:
> you only see a few (bottom?) black pixels for each letter. With xpdf the display
> is ok, but with warnings about "Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph".
> 
> This definitively looks like a font issue, since without the
> "\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}" line the display is back to normal.

Thanks for your investigations.

Evince can also display Postscript.  For the garbled PDFs, do the 
corresponding Postscript look fine in Evince?

If not, this seems not a Ghostscript bug, but a TeX (or user) bug to me.


 - Jonas

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