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Bug#248799: marked as done (gs-esp: breaks ligatures during pdf conversion)

Your message dated Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:04:41 +0900
with message-id <20060820070441.274C11A7869@mail.topstudio.co.jp>
and subject line gs-esp: breaks ligatures during pdf conversion
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: gs-esp
Version: 7.07.1-6
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

The ps2pdf command breaks the ligatures in some input postscript files,
particularly with small fonts.  I was unable to identify any combinations
of options that would prevent it from doing so.  The attached testfi.ps
file displays and prints properly as postscript.  The generated testfi.pdf
file created by
  ps2pdf testfi.ps testfi.pdf
displays the word 'first' as 'fi rst' (ie inserts a space after the 'fi'
ligature) and inflicts similar damage on words like 'overflow' and
'confidence'.

The resulting output is not publication quality.  I got many annoyed
comments from reviewers of a conference paper I submitted, because I
did not notice that the pdf didn't match the ps file I'd been
proof-reading.
 --scott

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gs-esp depends on:
ii  gs-common      0.3.6                     Common files for different Ghostsc
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-12              GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2  1.1.20final+cvs20040330-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2     1.1.20final+cvs20040330-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgimpprint1  4.2.6-4                   The Gimp-Print printer driver libr
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.2.3-1                   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libjpeg62      6b-9                      The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpaper1      1.1.14                    Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0     1.2.5.0-6                 PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++5     1:3.3.3-7                 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff3g      3.6.1-1                   Tag Image File Format library
ii  libx11-6       4.3.0.dfsg.1-1            X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6       4.3.0.dfsg.1-1            X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxt6         4.3.0.dfsg.1-1            X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs          4.3.0.dfsg.1-1            X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.1-5                 compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information

Attachment: testfi.ps
Description: PostScript document

Attachment: testfi.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 8.15.2.dfsg.1-1
thanks

As same as C.Scott said, this problem is already fixed in ghostscript
8.0 series.

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org

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