[OS X TeX] Extremely weird bug in: dvips? ghostscript? lucida fonts?

Maarten Sneep maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Fri Apr 2 16:21:46 EST 2004


On 2 apr 2004, at 22:32, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Le 2 avr. 04, à 17:14, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>
>> I'm really at a loss for understanding what's happening. I would 
>> think a GhostScript bug, all the more since using the Panther 
>> Distiller instead of ps2pdf13 suppresses the problem. Or maybe an 
>> indirect consequence of a malformed Lucida font?
>
> It's a GS bug indeed. Uninstall (with i-Installer) GS 8 and replace by 
> GS 6: problem vanishes; uninstall GS 6 and reinstall GS 8: problem 
> reappears. All this on latest Panther.

Which is very weird, as I use GS 8 (Latest i-Installer, latest Panther) 
and do not observe the problem. I guess there is also a font problem 
complicating matters.

Regards,

Maarten
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