Re: [Groff] PostScript question

[Alejandro López-Valencia]

On 29/10/2004 03:21 p.m., Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I had someone write me saying that when they processed a mom
> file with groff 1.18.1 for PostScript output, the letters ACEI
> (both upper and lower) were coming out as ] (i.e. as right square
> brackets).
[snip]
> Can someone explain why the .ps file sent to me has the text
> in code, while the file I generated shows the text as text?  And
> why ACEI are coming out as brackets?  Is it a font problem, a gs
> problem, or a grops problem?
>
> Thanks.
>  

I would think your bug reporter is using some hacked version of groff 
either with the Japanese or the Hangul patches; the fact that the output 
is hex encoded is quite telling. If so, the problem can be anywhere, but 
probably it is a bad interaction between the post processor output 
(which assumes the fonts will be CJK *and* CID mapped) with a version of 
gs with buggy CJK support (GNU gs 8.1 and the AFPL gs 8.4x betas are 
much better in that regard).

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Alejandro López-Valencia

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