Re: [Matplotlib-users] XPDF works but Ghostscript Doesn't for .eps

[Samuel M. S. <sm...@sa...>]

When I diff the ghostscript generated eps which does not distill and =20
the ps which does.
There is not much difference. I know next to nothing about postscript =20=

but the differences
have to do with the prolog and trailer and nothing else.


%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 14 188 591 593
%%HiResBoundingBox: 14.933874 188.868363 590.933874 592.068363


%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Pages: (atend)
%%BoundingBox: 17 194 594 598
%%HiResBoundingBox: 17.987999 194.507994 593.999982 597.527982


**** eps extra prolog*****
%%BeginProlog
save
countdictstack
mark
newpath
/showpage {} def
/setpagedevice {pop} def
%%EndProlog
%%Page 1 1


*** eps ***
%%PageTrailer
%%Trailer
cleartomark
countdictstack
exch sub { end } repeat
restore
%%Pages: 1
%%EOF

*** ps ***
%%PageTrailer
%%Trailer
%%Pages: 1
%%EOF





On 21 Aug 2007, at 11:10 , Darren Dale wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 August 2007 12:46:05 pm Jouni K. Sepp=E4nen wrote:
>> Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
>>>> The testgs.eps (for test with ghostscript) does not convert to pdf
>>>> using either apple preview or adobe distiller (the adobe log is
>>>> included)
>>>> It does however convert successfully with epstopdf so there is some
>>>> subtle difference.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry, I have no idea. I guess you would have to take it up with
>>> ghostscript, that is the program that is producing the file that =20
>>> adobe
>>> and apple preview is having trouble with.
>>
>> Since this is on Mac OS X, I suspect it is the long-standing font
>> problem; that is, matplotlib finds and uses some system fonts but =20
>> does
>> not embed them correctly. If you force the Bitstream Vera family of
>> fonts, does it work then?
>
> I doubt this is the case. The ghostscript distiller does not embed =20
> any fonts,
> it renders the text as rasters.
>
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