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Bug#731140: ghostscript: on PDF files with embedded fonts, ps2pdf changes the way fonts are rendered



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On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:54:19 +0100 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> Package: ghostscript
> Version: 9.05~dfsg-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> ps2pdf should not change the embedded fonts except by optimizing them
> (e.g. compressing them), but a simple test shows that it changes the
> way fonts are rendered. I've attached 3 files.
> 
> font1.pdf is the original file (generated by pdflatex).
> font2.pdf is the file obtained with "ps2pdf font1.pdf font2.pdf".
> font.png shows the text of font1.pdf (left) and font2.pdf (right),
> as obtained with xpdf.

I have repeated the test with ghostscript 10.02.1 and I cannot see any 
difference (using xpdf, or using evince) between font1 and the output of 
ps2pdf.

I'm inclined to close the bug shortly, but let me know if you can still 
reproduce the issue.

Best,
-Steve

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