Re: Bug#995392: ghostscript: ps2pdf trashes some characters

[Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>]

severity 995392 normal
tags 995392 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi all,

first of all, it seems this message didn't make it either to the list or
my computer, just found it by randomly checking transitioning.

Then, this is by far not a grave bug in TL. pdflatex is **not**
affected, since it generated pdf files without using ghostscript.

What might have some problems - and I haven't reproduced this till now
nor tested - is dvi -> ps -> pdf route.

>   * chartest3.tex:      Test: « don't ».
>   * chartest4[ab].tex:  Test: « don't finite float ».
>   * chartest5[ab].tex:  Test: « don't finite float offer affine ».
> where the 4b and 5b versions contain \pdfglyphtounicode commands for
> the ligatures (from glyphtounicode.tex), though the tests below show
> that they do not have any influence here.

Vincent, thanks for the tests, but without explanation or make files or
some hints on **what** you did run, this is not reproducible and
testable.

What I want to see is
* input file
* commands run
* log files of each program run
* what is the problematic output

Thanks

> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \begin{document}
> \thispagestyle{empty}
> Test: « don't ».
> \end{document}

This document and copy and paste of its content does work fine for me
with
* current sid
* latex/dvips/ps2pdf
* pdflatex

Generated pdf file can be copy/pasted.

I really don't see what is going on, thanks for any explanations.

Best

Norbert

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