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

Franz Pförtsch franz.pfoertsch at brose.net
Tue Oct 18 00:05:09 PDT 2005


Franz Pförtsch wrote:

> 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
Hello Michael,

do you have any new idea about my problem?
Is my cups olny to old or broken by SuSE?

regards
Franz

> 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
>> 
>>





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