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Re: PDF generation

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The following bytes were arranged on 29 Sep 2012 by Steve Fryatt :

> > In message <80e074d652.Broadband@thomas.smith57.virginmedia.com>
> >           T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have corrected that oversight and read the rest of the instructions
> > > but not necessarily understood every thing. Following the procedure I
> > > now get a PDF file but it contains the diagram but none of the text. So
> > > still something wrong

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> Sadly the report above gives no clue as to which app the PDF came from (I
> assume EasiWriter), or how it was created.  Was it via EasiWriter's save
> dialogue, in which case we need to look at EasiWriter's setup and document
> structure.  Or was it printed via PrintPDF, in which case there are similar
> questions along with the printing system (although I can't think of any
> obvious ways to get the printing system to strip text out of a document).

AFAICT it's a bug in Acorn's PostScript 2 driver - I've frequently had
this problem where the printing system deletes all of the text in a
document but leaves the paths intact.  It happens whether converting to
PDF with PrintPDF or actually printing documents, and the originating
application is irrelevant (I've witnessed it in EasiWriter, Draw,
OpenVector and PDF).

Unfortunately it's intermittent, and although there's no cure (apart
from converting all the text to paths if possible) once the PostScript
driver's taken a dislike to a given document, the most reliable
workaround I have thus found is to print exactly the same document on a
different computer.  Sadly both computers have been known to exhibit the
bug, but at least I get two bites of the cherry.

I'd love it if somebody could track it down!  Something must be going
very wrong deep inside the code to produce symptoms like these.

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PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-26 21:48 +0100
  Re: PDF generation Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-09-26 22:33 +0100
    Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-27 00:11 +0100
    Re: PDF generation Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-09-27 00:21 +0100
      Re: PDF generation Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2012-09-27 09:34 +0200
    Re: PDF generation Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-09-27 08:59 +0100
      Re: PDF generation Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-09-27 10:59 +0100
        Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-27 21:22 +0100
          Re: PDF generation Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-09-27 22:52 +0100
          Re: PDF generation Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-09-28 13:06 +0100
            Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-28 21:30 +0100
              Re: PDF generation Dave Wisnia at home <david@wisnia.net> - 2012-09-29 12:39 +0100
                Re: PDF generation Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-09-29 13:17 +0100
                Re: PDF generation Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-09-29 17:08 +0100
                Re: PDF generation Harriet Bazley <bazley@feathermail.co.uk> - 2012-09-30 23:35 +0100
                Re: PDF generation Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-10-01 12:33 +0100
                Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-29 20:37 +0100
                Re: PDF generation Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-09-30 16:32 +0100
                Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-30 21:14 +0100
                Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-30 21:33 +0100
                Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-30 21:19 +0100
                Re: PDF generation Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-09-30 22:01 +0100
                Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-30 22:58 +0100
                Re: PDF generation Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-09-30 23:10 +0100
                Re: PDF generation T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-09-30 23:43 +0100
    Re: PDF generation Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-09-30 23:35 +0100
      Re: PDF generation C J Craig <Chris@skipton.demon.co.uk> - 2012-10-01 08:13 +0000

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