Re: invalidfont

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2010-02-19, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On 2010-02-19, Martial wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > version 2.13.13
> > win_XP
> > 
> > In markup a postscript code no pdf output, but the ps is good.
> > Error with all font (Arial, Times, Courier...)
> > No problem with 2.13.12, 2.13.11 and 2.12.3
> 
> Confirmed.
> 
> Graham, I think this is related to stripping the Ghostscript dirs in GUB. 
> 
> I'll try to do some testing right now to see which directories are
> needed to fix this problem.

It's the "Font/" directory containing the Ghostscript (URW) fonts.
Adding this directory to a 2.13.13 GUB installer fixes the problem.

Hmm, and this directory is 3.5MB in size.  It's not the largest one in
Resource/ though.  Here are the sizes:

  11M     CMap/
  20K     ColorSpace/
  160K    Decoding/
  12K     Encoding/
  3.5M    Font/
  1.3M    Init/
  20K     SubstCID/

Since we've been shipping Ghostscript with these fonts, and Windows
users typically don't have them installed by default, we should
probably add back at least the Font/ directory.

I don't know about the technical details, but it looks like the CMap/
directory contains Postscript data for CID fonts, so it's possible
that CID fonts would no longer be converted correctly from PS->PDF.

-Patrick