OT: pdf2ps conversion problems.

[Bill Campbell]

I'm looking to generate faxes with Hylafax from PDF files created under
Windows, extracting the fax number from the file.

I've done similar things in the past by simply declaring a Windows printer
generating generic PostScript(tm) (often using an early Apple driver), with
the printer accessed via Samba.  My printer interface script for that
printer would then parse the PostScript after removing the Microsoft non-
standard PS cruft.

I figured I could convert the pdf to ps using the Ghostcript pdf2ps,
program, but that generates multiple warnings, ``Embedded symbolic TT fonts
must contain a cmap for Platform Encoding=0.''

The resulting ps file has no text.

This is on a SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 system with ghostscript-8.51.

Bill
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