[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #2138: pdftops creates invalid PS from particular PDF

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 08:54 -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:
> The embedded font in the PDF file does not contain a space glyph. The
> default "missing character" glyph name in ESP Ghostscript is "space"
> instead of ".notdef".  Ghostscript is throwing an error because it can't
> find a space character in the embedded font.
> 
> espgsMissingChar is defined in gs_init.ps; you can patch it to use
> .notdef, however keep in mind that this will lead to some PDF files
> printing with boxes for missing characters instead of spaces...

Isn't it possible to have GS try 'space' first and fall back to
'.notdef' if 'space' isn't defined?

Tim.
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