Re: LilyPond 2.7.38 released, final release candidate

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The pdf file size is still almost 8 times the size of the postscript
> file size.  (which I reported a couple of weeks ago).  I don't think
> anyone who distributes her work via pdf is going to consider this an
> upgrade from 2.6, even though there are some very nice new features.

Reason is a bug in gs.  As mentioned in INSTALL.texi, the small patch
below should be applied to ghostscript 8.53, and everything is just
fine.


    Werner


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Modified: trunk/gs/src/gdevpdtt.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/gs/src/gdevpdtt.c     2006-02-05 14:25:24 UTC (rev 6560)
+++ trunk/gs/src/gdevpdtt.c     2006-02-06 11:04:12 UTC (rev 6561)
@@ -1287,6 +1287,7 @@
     gs_char ch;
     gs_const_string gname;
     gs_glyph *gid = (gs_glyph *)pstr->data; /* pdf_text_process allocs enough 
space. */
+    bool unknown = false;
 
     /* Translate glyph name indices into gscencs.c indices. */
     for (i = 0; i < pstr->size; i++) {
@@ -1295,10 +1296,14 @@
        if (code < 0)
            return code;
        gid[i] = gs_c_name_glyph(gname.data, gname.size);
-       if (gid[i] == GS_NO_GLYPH)
-           return_error(gs_error_rangecheck);
+       if (gid[i] == GS_NO_GLYPH) {
+           /* Use global glyph name. */
+           gid[i] = gdata[i];
+           unknown = true;
+       }
     }
-
+    if (unknown)
+       return 0; /* Using global glyph names. */
     /* Find an acceptable encodng. */
     for (ei = 0; gs_c_known_encodings[ei]; ei++) {
        cgp->num_unused_chars = 0;