RE: Unexpected character change on Vista

[Nick Payne]

I have the latest version of Acrobat (v9) running on XP. Trevor sent me the
PS file generated on Vista for his minimal example demonstrating the problem
to see what happens when Acrobat converts it to PDF. I found the following:

1. Acrobat Distiller complains of a Postscript error in the PS file. Gets to
about 4% on the progress bar, flashes up a very quick error msg in the
status window saying "[%%] Postscript error [%%]", and no PDF file is
created. I wasn't able to find any error log on the system giving any
details of exactly what it didn't like about the PS file.

2. If I run that same minimal example through Lilypond on XP, the generated
PS file is about half the size of the same file on Vista (988Kb vs 1878Kb),
and Distiller has no problem converting the PS to PDF.

Nick

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> Sent: Sunday, 26 October 2008 04:23
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> Subject: Re: Unexpected character change on Vista
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> 
> Michael Lauer wrote:
> >
> > Michael Lauer <mrlauer1 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >> A somewhat better fix is to copy the old times.ttf (and the
> bold/italic
> >> versions, and any other system fonts you may want to use)) into
> >> c:\users\<username>\.fonts\ , and then tell fontconfig to ignore
> >> the system fonts. The only way I can see to do that is to edit
> >> c:\program files\lilypond\etc\fonts\fonts.conf and remove the line
> >>     <dir>WINDOWSFONTDIR</dir>
> >>
> >> If someone has a better workaround, please say so!
> >>
> > A better way to ignore the system TNR fonts: in
> > c:\users\<username>\.fonts.conf , add
> >
> > <fontconfig>
> >   <selectfont>
> >     <rejectfont>
> >       <glob>*Windows/fonts/times*</glob>
> >     </rejectfont>
> >   </selectfont>
> > </fontconfig>
> >
> I have a better workaround:
> 1) write the .ly file on Vista
> 2) When OK, copy the file on another pc with XP.
> 3) LLP on XP generates the final pdf file.
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