Re: ps changes betweeen 2.7.29 and 2.8.2 broke tabloid booklet

[John Hawkinson]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote on Sun, 14 May 2006
at 21:08:21 -0700 in <address@hidden>:


> >I expect this relates to binary font encodings and psbook/psnup. What
> >if you pdf2ps the lilypond-produced pdf file and use that as your
> >starting point for psbook?
> 
> It works fine with this solution.
> 
> 
> Still, it would be nice to track down this bug.

Yeah... the problem here is it kind of depends on your idea of a
bug. I find it a bit frustrating because even if it is fixed in
ghostscript, I expect it will still cause my printer to crash...  I
think Han-Wen's position is that if LilyPond generates legitimate
postscript, then things are OK, even if several popular postscript
interpreters have trouble with it.

> http://percival-music.ca/bar.ps
...
> Current file position is 4968
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

So, this is in the middle of the Emmentaler-14 font.
i.e. this is an opentype font issue.

In a perfect world, we'd discover there was a fontforge bug in the
generation of the opentype fonts, but I don't think we're really in
that world. But perhaps someone here is active in fontforge
development and knows if the issue has been raised?

--jhawk