Swedish characters in postscript files printing as space

[Nigel Bennington]

Unfortunately, I can't post the documents, as they are client-confidential.

I assume that they are correctly formed, since the exact same document prints perfectly when printed from a windows machine, using Adobe Reader.

> Nigel Bennington wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction here, as I am racking
> > my brains over this one.
> >
> > I am running CUPS 1.1.21 (I think, that's the version string in
> > cupsd.conf) on Solaris 10 - If it helps, it's the CUPS from the 10/04
> > companion CD.
> >
> > I have all locales installed, and base locale is set to Northern Europe,
> > with ISO8859P1 as the default character set.
> >
> > The problem I have is that postscript or pfd files containing swedish
> > characters are substituting spaces for the swedish characters. They also
> > display as spaces in Ghostscript.
> >
> > If I ftp the same files down to a windows system, they both print and
> > display correctly.
> >
> > Any pointers as to what I am doing wrong?
>
> Please post (an URL to) a sample file (PostScript preferred).
> If the files are created on your system, I guess either the fonts installed
> on your system do not contain the glyphs for the swedish characters or the
> creating applications do not correctly reencode the fonts.
>
> Helge
>