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  ghostscript Font Substitution Hans-Juergen Frevel <hjfrevel@1med.uni-kiel.de> - 2012-06-06 09:48 +0200
    Re: ghostscript Font Substitution Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-06-06 11:12 +0200
      Re: ghostscript Font Substitution Hans-Juergen Frevel <hjfrevel@1med.uni-kiel.de> - 2012-06-06 14:13 +0200
        Re: ghostscript Font Substitution ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-06-06 20:37 +0100

#707 — ghostscript Font Substitution

Hello,

I have a PDF-File which don't show the german umlauts with gsview. I 
have the following message:

GSview 5.0 2012-01-17
GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Scanning PDF file
%GSVIEW_PDF_PAGES: 1 1
Displaying PDF page 1
%GSVIEW_PDF_PAGE: 1
%GSVIEW_PDF_MEDIA: [0 0 595.273 841.886]
%GSVIEW_PDF_ROTATE: 0
Can't find CID font "CourierNew".
Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /CourierNew, see 
doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
The substitute CID font "Adobe-Identity" is not provided either. 
attempting to use fallback CIDFont.See doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
Loading a TT font from %rom%Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf to 
emulate a CID font Adobe-Identity ... Done.
Can't find CID font "CourierNew".
Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /CourierNew, see 
doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
Can't find CID font "Tahoma".
Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /Tahoma, see 
doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.

I haven't understand how to substitute the missing fonts.

Thank you for any help

greetings
Hans-Jürgen

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#708

Hans-Juergen Frevel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a PDF-File which don't show the german umlauts with gsview. I
> have the following message:
> 
> GSview 5.0 2012-01-17
> GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
> Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Scanning PDF file
> %GSVIEW_PDF_PAGES: 1 1
> Displaying PDF page 1
> %GSVIEW_PDF_PAGE: 1
> %GSVIEW_PDF_MEDIA: [0 0 595.273 841.886]
> %GSVIEW_PDF_ROTATE: 0
> Can't find CID font "CourierNew".
> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /CourierNew, see
> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
> The substitute CID font "Adobe-Identity" is not provided either.
> attempting to use fallback CIDFont.See doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
> Loading a TT font from %rom%Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf to
> emulate a CID font Adobe-Identity ... Done.
> Can't find CID font "CourierNew".
> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /CourierNew, see
> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
> Can't find CID font "Tahoma".
> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /Tahoma, see
> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
> 
> I haven't understand how to substitute the missing fonts.
> 
> Thank you for any help
> 
> greetings
> Hans-Jürgen

You didn't tell anything about the system you are running on (presumably 
Windows?), but if set up corrrectly, Ghostscript should fall back to the 
DroidSansFallback font, which *does* contain the umlauts.

But - again assuming you are on a Windows system - CourierNew and Tahoma 
belong, as far as I know, to the standard fonts supplied with every Windows 
installation, so you should set up a cidfmap file as described in the 
Use.htm document and force GSview to use that by providing the -I command 
line switch (as your Ghostscript has the default resources compiled in).

Helge

PS: Issues like this ever since lead me to not compile in the resources 
whenever I compile Ghostscript from the sources (I'm using variuos Unices).

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#709

Am 06.06.2012 11:12, schrieb Helge Blischke:
> Hans-Juergen Frevel wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a PDF-File which don't show the german umlauts with gsview. I
>> have the following message:
>>
>> GSview 5.0 2012-01-17
>> GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
>> Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
>> Scanning PDF file
>> %GSVIEW_PDF_PAGES: 1 1
>> Displaying PDF page 1
>> %GSVIEW_PDF_PAGE: 1
>> %GSVIEW_PDF_MEDIA: [0 0 595.273 841.886]
>> %GSVIEW_PDF_ROTATE: 0
>> Can't find CID font "CourierNew".
>> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /CourierNew, see
>> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
>> The substitute CID font "Adobe-Identity" is not provided either.
>> attempting to use fallback CIDFont.See doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
>> Loading a TT font from %rom%Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf to
>> emulate a CID font Adobe-Identity ... Done.
>> Can't find CID font "CourierNew".
>> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /CourierNew, see
>> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
>> Can't find CID font "Tahoma".
>> Attempting to substitute CID font /Adobe-Identity for /Tahoma, see
>> doc/Use.htm#CIDFontSubstitution.
>>
>> I haven't understand how to substitute the missing fonts.
>>
>> Thank you for any help
>>
>> greetings
>> Hans-Jürgen
> You didn't tell anything about the system you are running on (presumably
> Windows?), but if set up corrrectly, Ghostscript should fall back to the
> DroidSansFallback font, which *does* contain the umlauts.
>
> But - again assuming you are on a Windows system - CourierNew and Tahoma
> belong, as far as I know, to the standard fonts supplied with every Windows
> installation, so you should set up a cidfmap file as described in the
> Use.htm document and force GSview to use that by providing the -I command
> line switch (as your Ghostscript has the default resources compiled in).
>
> Helge
>
> PS: Issues like this ever since lead me to not compile in the resources
> whenever I compile Ghostscript from the sources (I'm using variuos Unices).
>

Hello,

the system is windows XP. I have added the following line to the cidfmap 
file and tried the -I switch:

/CourierNew << /FileType /TrueType /SubfontID 0 /CSI [(GB1) 2] /Path 
(C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/cour.ttf) >> ;

With this line the document shows only a white area and the following 
message appears:

GSview 5.0 2012-01-17
GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Scanning PDF file
%GSVIEW_PDF_PAGES: 1 1
Displaying PDF page 1
%GSVIEW_PDF_PAGE: 1
%GSVIEW_PDF_MEDIA: [0 0 595.273 841.886]
%GSVIEW_PDF_ROTATE: 0
    **** Warning: can't process font stream, loading font by the name.
    **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
    **** File did not complete the page properly and may be damaged.

If I delete the line, the first message appears and there are no umlauts 
as described.

Hans-Jürgen

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#710

In article <a38vr4Fg2dU1@mid.individual.net>, hjfrevel@1med.uni-kiel.de 
says...

> the system is windows XP. I have added the following line to the 
cidfmap 
> file and tried the -I switch:
> 
> /CourierNew << /FileType /TrueType /SubfontID 0 /CSI [(GB1) 2] /Path 
> (C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/cour.ttf) >> ;

GB1 is a Chinese encoding, so its not too surprising that doesn't 
work.....

You could try /CSI [(Artifex) (Unicode) 0] or /CSI [(Artifex) (Identity) 
0]

Alternatively publish the PDF file somewhere that we can take a look at 
it, and obviate the guesswork.


		Ken

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