Re: Weirdness with PDF conversion application.

Hello again,

I omitted one key fact from my last post: I am running Win XP. Also, I
have just tried uninstalling the Asian fonts, and the problem remains.

Regards,

Stu

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
>

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Received on Sun Jun 20 21:21:01 2004