Hi, I work for a typesetting company. We are at the moment trying to move to a PDF-based workflow w.r.t. handling images as EPS workflow is unreliable due to font embedding issues. We have some legacy systems that cannot import PDF files. In those cases we use pdftops to convert the PDF files to Postscript. The problem is that when these Postscript files are imported into the legacy software, and then re-exported as Postscript, the resulting file seems to be broken in some way. This happens whether importing into 3B2, QuarkXpress or InDesign. These programs do not have any problems with Postscript files created by Illustrator. Direct export to PDF also works fine in these typesetting systems. It is the export to Postscript that produces files that flashes the images briefly and disappears in Ghostscript.
The problem occurs with poppler versions 0.18.4 and 0.12.4, and when pdftops is invoked with any one of the 'level3sep', 'level2sep' or 'level1sep' options. I have some sample files which show this problem. pdftops exits with value 0 when converting these PDFs and does not display any warnings. The resulting Postscript files look fine when viewed with Ghostscript or any of the above mentioned programs. When it comes time to export as Postscript using these programs, the output file is broken, including when viewed with Ghostscript; the images briefly show-up and disappear. Any help in figuring out why this is so would be most welcome. Please let me know where I can post the sample files. Is it fine to attach them to an email posted to this list? Or should I look elsewhere to track this down? Amartyo _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
