[cups.general] Problem printing pdf document

[Ambrose Li]

On 06/09/06, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> Seeme the chinese font (the first one used) is corrupted.
> I tested the file on 2 different HP printers which died
> witz "79.00FE" error on the printer's display, and a level3
> (3015.xxx) printer with a true Adobe RIP  complained with
> an invalidfont error.
>
> Queer enough, my hacked Ghostscript 7.00 (quite old, isn't it?)
> rendered it successfully (at least without complaining).
>
> Helge

This is no surprise at all. Some fonts work with Ghostscript 7 way
better than Ghostscript 8, and I still use Ghostscript 7 from time
to time because Ghostscript 8 sometimes just doesn't work.

Ghostscript 8 does seem to be (needlessly, IMHO) much stricter
about fonts than Ghostscript 7, and when Ghostscript 8 first came
out some Chinese fonts just stopped working.  (There were only
a handful free ones back then, so it was really bad and I put off
upgrading for as long as I could.)

I suppose the PS level 3 printers are similarly stricter than old
printers...

-- 
cheers,
-ambrose