Swedish characters in postscript files printing as space

[Helge Blischke]

Nigel Bennington wrote:

> 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
>>

Well, then, at least, do the following:

Open such a file in Adobe Reader, select "properties" from the file menu,
go to the "fonts" tab, and post what it tells about the used fonts (at least 
for some of them).

Helge