GPL ghostscript 8.61 bug when converting PDF->PS : interlacing

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

Hello all,

  I'm using Ubuntu Hardy and Debian unstable on AMD64, and find the
following bug in ghostscript when distilling a PDF to a PS (using
pdf2ps): a fractur-character graphic is turned into an interlaced
graphic, but all other text and graphics on the page are perfect.

The page in question is the LaTeX brochure by Peter Flynn, whose PDF
version I used. It is available on CTAN at:

http://www.ctan.org/get/info/latex-brochure/brochure.pdf

I eventually used Adobe Acrobat 5.0 on a Windows machine to save the
PDF as PS, and then took the correctly-converted PS back to my linux
computer for further processing.

Thanks,
       Gernot Hassenpflug

* A tip: how to decompose a single A3 PS page into 2 A4 pages:
  poster -c0% -mA4 -pA3 inputA3.ps > outputA4.ps

* I'll report this bug to the Debian and Ubuntu ghostscript
  distribution webpage interfaces as well.

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