RE: Unexpected character change on Vista

[Nick Payne]

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> Subject: RE: Unexpected character change on Vista
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> Nick Payne-3 wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> A simple solution: record the screen portion of where the message
> appear
> with your camcorder.

Afraid I don't have one of those...
> 
> 
> Nick Payne-3 wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> In the ps file generated by llp, the Times New Roman font is near the
> beginning of the file; no wonder the error above is about 4% of the
> file.
> 
> Do you confirm the vista font has several "N" characters?

Yes, in the charstring dictionary for the font that is embedded in the PS
file, there are:

def /N 49
def /N 1197
def /N 1230

When I generate the PS on XP, only the first "N" character is in the font.

Nick