[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #1316: German umlauts are not printed

[Franz Pförtsch]

Helge Blischke wrote:
Hello Helge,

you are right my ypdf 2.03 is fairly old but it was created with cups
1.1.23. I also try to create the ps with the new xpd 3.01 from cups 1.2cvn,
but the same error occurs.

I am thinking about the alternate pdftops!

regards
Franz
  
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>>                 Name: spad2.pdf
>>    spad2.pdf    Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf)
>>             Encoding: BASE64
> 
> Your spad2.ps has been created by xpdf 2.03 which is fairly old and has
> some bugs concerning TrueType fonts and especially font sets. You should
> upgrade to xpdf 3.01 (which is the most recent, as far as I know), that
> works.
> 
> If CUPS' pdftops filter does not work, you could try the alternate pdftops
> filter which calls the original pdftops utility from Xpdf. That will work
> provided your Xpdf version is at least 3.00.
> 
> Helge
> 
>