OT: pdf2ps conversion problems.

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>I'm -no- expert, but I've been working quite a bit with PDF
>lately...actually, I'm finishing the OneGate 4.1 docs right now using
>NitroPDF.  :)
>
>What I -believe- this means is that when fonts were embedded, someone
>chose to encode them as Type 0.  I have no idea what exactly that means in
>PDF parlance, but because I've seen that option in PDF authoring tools, I
>believe you're going to be unable to fix the problem on the interpretation
>side because it's more than likely due to how it was encoded.
>
>If someone knows more, they're welcome to correct me or add to it, but
>that's what little I have here.  Maybe search Google for Type 0 font PDF?

I did a Google search on the warning message before posting this, and the
most recent things I found were in 2002.

Bill
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