Re: Weirdness with PDF conversion application.

Stuart Soloway wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I thought I would post this problem of mine to the users' group before
> considering reporting it as a bug in the hope that some might
> recognize what is going on.
>
> I have a package called PDFcamp that allows me to create PDF documents
> by printing to a PDF printer device. It has always worked well for me
> with abiword as well as with other applications. But all of a sudden,
> I noticed that when I attempted to print to the PDF printer from
> abiword, it would come out garbled. If the abiword file contains:
>
> a
> b
> c
> d
>
> the PDF file contains
>
> D
> E
> F
> G
>
> It seems to subtract 31 from the ascii value of each lower-case
> character.
>
> If the abiword contains
>
> A
> B
> C
> D
>
> the PDF contains
>
> $
> %
> &
> '
> Now it has subtracted 29 from the ascii values.
>
> When printing a file with multiple characters per line, the result is
> garbled, probably because the character spacing is not correct.
>
> This may have been precipitated by either upgrading my abiword; I am
> currently running 2.1.3, but I think I first noticed it with the most
> recent stable release. Or it may have been precipitated by my
> installing Asian fonts, which happened at about the same time. I have
> reinstalled both abiword and PDFcamp since, but it still happens.
> Embedding fonts doesn't seem to change the problem. This only happens
> when I use the PDFcamp device as my printer and when printing from
> abiword; it does not happen with MSword or with any other program, or
> with abiword and any other printer. So if it is a bug, I have no way
> to tell if it is Abiword or PDFcamp.
>
> I have sample files I can forward to anyone who is interested, but I
> didn't want to broadcast them on the list.
>
> If this makes any sense to anyone, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stu
>
>
Windows printing in 2.1.3 is in an unfortunate state. Odd spacing and
font problems (switched to Courier) are known.

However, the problem regarding the character shifting is unusual. Try
using PDFCreator (find it at sf.net) and try again, since this is what I
and a few of the other Windows people test with. Let us know if the
problem still occurs, and if it does, file a bug after checking for dupes.

Thank you!

Ryan
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Received on Sun Jun 20 21:25:14 2004