9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2 gs removes special chars when converting from pdf to jpeg

[Tuomas Koski]

(Creating a bug report as suggested here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/267233)

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

apt-cache policy ghostscript
ghostscript:
  Installed: 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2
  Candidate: 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2
  Version table:
 *** 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.2 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

What you expected to happen:

When I ran: gs -o output.jpg -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg input.pdf

I expect to have output.jpg, which look like this: http://62.210.181.5/has_all_chars.jpg

What happened instead:

Instead I get output.jpg which looks like this: http://62.210.181.5/missing_special_chars.jpg (notice the missing special chars, forexample ä letters).

So far this seems to happen only for Arial chars.

Test input.pdf file can be found here: http://62.210.181.5/input.pdf

If I download http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-9.10.tar.gz, and do:
tar xvf ghostscript-9.10.tar.gz
cd ghostscript-9.10
./configure
make
bin/gs -o output.jpg -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg input.pdf

The output is correct.

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[Tuomas Koski (koski-tuomas)]

Adding package.

[Tuomas Koski (koski-tuomas)]

Sadly seems that I need to find another media to push this forward and to find out how to debug this more.

Any hints from anyone? Who to talk, how to start myself to look for the bug?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Hello, thanks for reporting this issue.
Ghostscript has been updated to 9.25 in current releases of Ubuntu.

Could you please verify that your issue has been resolved, and update this bug accordingly?

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ghostscript (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]