[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #2010: ESP Ghostscript produces ugly PDFswith "jumping letters"

[Helge Blischke]

Gero Mudersbach wrote:
> [STR New]
> 
> When using ps2pdf or gs directly or through kde print to pdf dialog ugly
> pdfs are generated. The letters are "jumping" up and down. This problem is
> valid for ghostscript-esp-8.15.1 and ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r10. The
> following command was used to convert postscript to pdf:
> gs -dNOPLATFONTS -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -sOutputFile=test.pdf
> -dSAFER -c .setpdfwrite -f pdfproblem.ps
> 
> I can reproduce this on Suse 10.1 and Gentoo Linux.
> 
> See also http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136580
> 
> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2010
> Version: 8.15.1
> Attachment: http://www.cups.org/strfiles/2010/gs8.pdf
> 

The sample PDF looks good when viewed with Adobe Reader,
and it prints OK.
Which viewer/printer shows the "jumping" characters?

Helge


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