I don't think you have a bad font. Stastically, the odds of that are on par with getting struck by lighning and attacked by a shark, at the same time, on the beaches of Lake Michigan.I'm not saying that it can't be it. I see hoof prints, let's look for horses - not zebras.I think you have a bad tool that created the PDF. BBox errors tend to crop up when the PDF creation engine tries to do something 'stupid' to a font when creating the PDF. Such as, converting a generic Type-1 into a TrueType then from TrueType into a CID font before creating the PDF. Or, just their insertion of the font into the PDF contains buggy code. Or, just ignoring the BBox table completely (common on the really low-budget GDI based tools on the Windows side).Yes, this can even be the case in MAC OS/X with the ubiquitus 'Save As PDF' feature everywhere - that uses the OS's PDF library (it's better now, but for a long while it was really, really bad).Take a look at what created the PDF (File Document Properties Description section) - If it wasn't something safe and reliable (e.g.
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Acrobat) that very well may be the cause.Rather than going to the extreme of reinstalling your OS (let's try to fix the squeeky door not by burning your house down but with a can of 3:1 oil) I would just see if refrying the PDF fixes it - Print the PDF back through the Adobe PDF printer and use one of the high-quality printer settings - such a. High Quality. One of the settings that forces all fonts to be embedded.Super Genius tools such as the preflight content viewer and WindJacks PDFCannopener can find out exactly what's wrong.
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Keep in mind these tools give a lot of very detailed, deep technical information on a PDF and take some time to learn how to use. Just letting you know that they are there - not asking you use them.Hope this helps.Doug.
I hate to say this - particularly since it's only one application that's giving you fits - but, if you've a backup, you made need to boot to your Recovery partition, erase your drive, and reinstall OS X. That should fix the font problem.I've had no trouble with X or XI (although I've only been using XI since last Monday). It still seems to be that there's simply something wrong with Lucida Grande and not Acrobat Pro X.If you've a Time Machine backup, reinstall the OS again, first erasing your hard drive. I would bet that X would work then (but get it working before you install XI, as I don't think that will fix the problem).Clinton.
I'm trying to get ghostscript to render a pdf file from a Windows box. The pdf file uses the ComicSansMS font. I've copied the comic.ttf file from my Windows7 box into my /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts directory, and I've created a Fontmap file in that same directory containing this line: /ComicSansMS (comic.ttf);As nearly as I can tell, the font is not being found despite this.
The text comes out very poorly, and some of the smaller font sizes are rendered half the size they should be. Access times and strace show that the Fontmap file is being read, but the font file (comic.ttf) is not being accessed at all. There are no error messages: hope 78$ gs cards-01.pdfGPL Ghostscript 9.00 (2010-09-14)Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.Processing pages 1 through 1.Page 1showpage, press to continueshowpage, press to continue. I assume that PDF does not have the ComicSansMS font embedded?You should consider 2 other possibilities as well:. Your PDF file card-01.pdf is somehow corrupted.
(Are other PDF viewers rendering that file without a problem? Does it display OK in Acrobat Reader on Widnows?). Your fontfile comic.ttf is somehow corrupted.
The PDF file is definitely fine. I can read it without trouble in Acrobat Reader, both on Windows and Macintosh. As for the comic.ttf file, I don't know whether it's corrupted, but I'm fairly sure it's irrelevent, since the file isn't being opened at all.
I made sure the filesystem was mounted with strictatime option, and the access time isn't being changed. Also, I ran ghostscript under strace, and I can see the Fontmap file being opened, but ghostscript never accesses the font file.
I tried the command you suggested, and it does appear to work, outputting comic-ttf.pdf without error.–Jan 22 '11 at 2:19. I came back to this problem after a delay.
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Upon further investigation with a magnifying glass, the problem is different from what I initially thought.Text is definitely being rendered incorrectly in parts of the document. Each letter is far too small, though the spacing is oddly correct. However, the individual letters are the correct shape for the font.The font on disk is not being accessed, but that's because the fonts are all embedded within the document. This fact would probably have been obvious to a Ghostscript expert from the output I posted in the original question (I'm guessing the 'HYLUQF+' prefix is the smoking gun there), but I don't work with Ghostscript much.
My fonts were installed correctly, and other documents were able to access them without trouble.Of course, this still leaves the question of why my embedded fonts are being rendered incorrectly, but I will investigate that separately and/or post a different question. I maintain that the PDF file is uncorrupted (I have several other PDFs which exhibit the same problem), but I still don't know what's wrong.@pipitas: Thanks very much for trying.
You certainly did help verify that my installed fonts are not the problem. Actually, now that I look again, you even gently suggested the font might be embedded, but I either didn't see it, didn't believe it, or didn't know how to check.
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