From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 05:18:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B4816A422 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 05:18:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60021.mail.yahoo.com (web60021.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 396AC43D58 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 05:18:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 12526 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Feb 2006 05:18:40 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=0VhWOHWQZDL6vkF8PPf22vIAcu6tk62hOHSS6xB6KgyPbVQPO2y81DrJLqutr0WBYYiWmSB1AtYjd9y1siO2s1pQZ9Qd6ZlWVjL6iuuBafjy/BBZtG1aA6UeYk8pEq5p1zTsIQKcjA04PpOvgv/pUJnXh8KNEB5URGGZacA/e00= ; Message-ID: <20060203051840.12524.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.85.9] by web60021.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:18:40 EST Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:18:40 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: freebsd-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: abw to pdf problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:18:42 -0000 I have a tiny shell script that I use to convert abiword documents to pdf format and then open the new file using xpdf: ============= #!/bin/sh abiword --print /tmp/$1.ps $1.abw ps2pdf /tmp/$1.ps $1.pdf xpdf $1.pdfing box in Type 3 glyph ============= Ever since upgrading my ports I am getting strange errors when xpdf opens a file thus created: Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph The document looks ok to my eyes. I rummaged around the net and I have found a similar problem and it seems it is a ghostscript issue. Indeed, I did change around my ghostscript ports (ghostscript-afpl to ghostscript-gnu) because that is what portmanager suggested. Should I try to go back? Comments? Running 5.4 stable here. -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca