#889282 Fails to convert certain PDFs to PS, garbled characters instead of text

Package:
ghostscript
Source:
ghostscript
Description:
interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
Submitter:
martin f krafft
Date:
2024-02-29 05:48:08 UTC
Severity:
normal
#889282#5
Date:
2018-02-03 09:34:52 UTC
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This may be related to #885006, though the problems in the output
are different. Hence I am filing a new bug report.

Please see attached PDF. If you convert it to Postscript using
ps2pdf, you get garbled text. Using poppler's pdftops, however,
works fine.
#889282#10
Date:
2018-02-08 03:11:11 UTC
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Just a quick note that I've found a workaround to my problem, which
is to either use pdftopdf / pdftops from Poppler directly, or insert
it into the CUPS filter pipeline before Ghostscript to be able to
print, e.g.

  pdftops - - < my.pdf | lp …
#889282#15
Date:
2024-02-29 05:21:25 UTC
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I am able to view the attached test.ghostscript.ps without garbled text using
evince.  It looks identical to test.pdf.

I also tested conversion to ps using ghostscript 10.02.1 and again found no
issues.