Hi Thanh, On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Martin Schröder wrote:

2007/1/18, Michal Kvasnicka :

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Excuse me this off-topic, I don't know where should I ask.

The pdftex mailing list would be a better place. See http://www.pdftex.org/README

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Can anybody tell me what's wrong, and if there is a ghostscript version capable to view the output of pdftex 1.40.1? Without it it is useless for me. :-(

I can view sample2e.pdf or the pdftex manual fine with gs 8.54.

e. g. when i run this test file through pdftex-1.40.1 %$Id: test4.tex,v 1.3 2006/01/06 20:24:10 hahe Exp hahe $ \pdfcompresslevel=0 \nopagenumbers \pdfmapline{qtmr <8r.enc

Good evening. I found some more puzzling things. I write them here fore anybody who may be interested. :-) I tried to typeset a document using two font families: TrueType Gentium by SIL, and Adobe OpenType Myriad. First I converted Myriad to Type1 using fontforge, then I prepared metrics for all fonts with TeXFont using ec-lm encoding. I found this: (1) Any ConTeXt document produced by pdfetex 1.40.1 (even this one: \setupoutput[pdf] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext makes my GhostScript (gs Ghostscript 8.15.3 under SuSE Linux 10.1) die with this error: **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. **** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file. **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data. ERROR: /undefined in /BXlevel etc. However, if I make a ps-file out of it using AdobeReader, I can view/print it with my GhostScript. The newest Ghostscript (Ghostscript 8.54 (2006-05-17)) doesn't write this error message but the rest of problems (see below) is the same. (2) When I typeset my document only with the Gentium font, or only with the Myriad font, or with a combination of the Gentium and LatinModern, or the Gentium and TrueType version of Myriad (made fontforge), the outcome is the same as (1). (3) If I try to combine TrueType Gentium and Type1 Myriad, my GhostScript failes to view/print it properly: strange letters appear in the text. I've got no idea what's wrong. By the way, my input regime is now utf8. Do you thing this is problem of ConTeXt, or pdfetex, or GhostScript? Whom should I tell it? Yours Michal Kvasnicka P.S. I apologize to all of you who are bothered by this topic.

Michal Kvasnicka wrote:

Good evening.

I found some more puzzling things. I write them here fore anybody who may be interested. :-)

I tried to typeset a document using two font families: TrueType Gentium by SIL, and Adobe OpenType Myriad. First I converted Myriad to Type1 using fontforge, then I prepared metrics for all fonts with TeXFont using ec-lm encoding. I found this:

(1) Any ConTeXt document produced by pdfetex 1.40.1 (even this one: \setupoutput[pdf] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext makes my GhostScript (gs Ghostscript 8.15.3 under SuSE Linux 10.1) die with this error: **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. **** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file. **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data. ERROR: /undefined in /BXlevel etc. However, if I make a ps-file out of it using AdobeReader, I can view/print it with my GhostScript. The newest Ghostscript (Ghostscript 8.54 (2006-05-17)) doesn't write this error message but the rest of problems (see below) is the same.

(2) When I typeset my document only with the Gentium font, or only with the Myriad font, or with a combination of the Gentium and LatinModern, or the Gentium and TrueType version of Myriad (made fontforge), the outcome is the same as (1).

(3) If I try to combine TrueType Gentium and Type1 Myriad, my GhostScript failes to view/print it properly: strange letters appear in the text.

I've got no idea what's wrong. By the way, my input regime is now utf8.

Do you thing this is problem of ConTeXt, or pdfetex, or GhostScript? Whom should I tell it?

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