Michal Kvasnicka wrote: > Good evening. > > I found some more puzzling things. I write them here fore anybody who > may be interested. :-) > > I tried to typeset a document using two font families: TrueType Gentium > by SIL, and Adobe OpenType Myriad. First I converted Myriad to Type1 > using fontforge, then I prepared metrics for all fonts with TeXFont > using ec-lm encoding. I found this: > > (1) Any ConTeXt document produced by pdfetex 1.40.1 (even this one: > \setupoutput[pdf] > \starttext > \input tufte > \stoptext > makes my GhostScript (gs Ghostscript 8.15.3 under SuSE Linux 10.1) die > with this error: > **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. > **** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused > **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file. > **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data. > ERROR: /undefined in /BXlevel > etc. However, if I make a ps-file out of it using AdobeReader, I can > view/print it with my GhostScript. > The newest Ghostscript (Ghostscript 8.54 (2006-05-17)) doesn't write > this error message but the rest of problems (see below) is the same. > > (2) When I typeset my document only with the Gentium font, or only with > the Myriad font, or with a combination of the Gentium and LatinModern, > or the Gentium and TrueType version of Myriad (made fontforge), the > outcome is the same as (1). > > (3) If I try to combine TrueType Gentium and Type1 Myriad, my > GhostScript failes to view/print it properly: strange letters appear in > the text. > > I've got no idea what's wrong. By the way, my input regime is now utf8. > > Do you thing this is problem of ConTeXt, or pdfetex, or GhostScript? > Whom should I tell it? > > probably a gs problem ... 8.15 is pretty old; versions 8.30+ *we now have 8/54) are better with pdf
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