Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:28:35 -0500 From: ken Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Bad glyph causes Adobe distill failure, but works in Preview Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 15:28:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <989b39ed-2a02-4b74-b4ce-e07ec9d70920@z13g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: ken@spamcop.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-6h88hoi/ffH6nDTm6Hde8J09WKD7i1gcGkKyDK4KU/6aIe20IDIic5Vo2OoBKtswOR1yn722pFqL/MR!8/FvHQrryLFtvw7tUzMLqdPC4lekyd3xhoPJNH84Qm1ei7+WGaC+qSRO6/HH0unP4OomOFFoS+0P!E1wKD01hyLyILzE= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1657 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.postscript:224 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