Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview

From	ken <ken@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview
Date	2011-06-03 15:28 +0100
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In article <989b39ed-2a02-4b74-b4ce-e07ec9d70920
@z13g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, jdawiseman@gmail.com says...

> Yikes. An error that isn't being caught by being trapped by ?stopped?.
> Please, how can this error be properly caught within PostScript?

It *is* properly handled in PostScript. The mistake is in thinking that 
Adobe Acrobvat Distiller is a precisely donforming PostScript 
interpreter, it isn't.

Distiller ignores parts of the spec which it finds inconvenient, and 
often does not trap errors properly in a stopped context.

Try the same test on Ghostscript.

			Ken

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Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 01:46 -0700
  Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 01:46 -0700
  Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-03 15:28 +0100
    Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 11:45 -0700
      Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-04 10:54 +0100
        Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-05 04:15 -0700
          Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-06 07:55 +0100
            Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 14:49 -0700
              Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-07 07:50 +0100
                Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 02:00 -0700
                Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-07 10:37 +0100
                Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 16:56 -0700

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