cannot read/print japanese pdf files
Evan Monroig
evan.ubuntu at gmail.com
Mon May 9 09:23:28 UTC 2005
I have tested again, with a printer this time.
The first file displays correctly with gpdf, and prints correctly.
The second file displays correctly with xpdf, but not with gpdf, and
printing it with xpdf fails... I have tried to convert it to ps
("ps2pdf yachiyo.pdf"), but this produced an error:
--
evan at evan:~ $ pdf2ps yachiyo.pdf
Error: /undefined in /90msp-RKSJ-H
Operand stack:
--dict:4/4(L)-- F0 12 --dict:6/6(L)-- --dict:6/6(L)--
\uffffl\uffffr\uffffo\uffffS\uffffV\uffffb\uffffN
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3
%oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- 2 1 8
--nostringval-- %for_pos_int_continue --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval--
false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- %loop_continue
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1054/1417(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:73/200(L)--
--dict:73/200(L)-- --dict:97/127(ro)(G)-- --dict:229/230(ro)(G)--
--dict:19/24(L)-- --dict:4/6(L)-- --dict:23/31(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
--
Evan
On 5/7/05, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY <zamb at saudi.net.sa> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:49 +0900, toyfactory wrote:
> > Evan, have you had any luck?
> >
> > I just googled for .pdf files containing 'tamagoyaki' and tried a couple
> > at random. The first file [1] prints fine from Xpdf, both to the
> > printer and to a .ps file. The second file [2] just came out trash.
> >
> > Maybe the first one has the fonts embedded and the second relies on
> > local fonts?
> >
> > I notice in the multiverse repository there's xpdf-japanese which is
> > supposed to add Japanese language support. I don't have it installed,
> > maybe I'll try that. I'll check in Windows too.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > [1] http://www.wa.commufa.jp/~manma/recipe/2404/2404.pdf
> > It's a recipe for egg roll with seaweed.
> >
> > [2] http://web.pref.hyogo.jp/kitaharima/ topics27/yachiyo/yachiyo.pdf
> > Don't know what this is, something to do with egg roll though.
> >
> The second file didn't even display correctly on my screen. After
> installing the package 'xpdf-japanese' it displayed perfectly! (I don't
> have a printer, so I can't help as much when it comes to this area!
> Sorry.)
>
> All in all, great tip. (Yes, I know this is not my problem originally,
> but I do play with Japanese PDF files a lot, and sooner or later, I'll
> face the same problem, so thanks!)
> Ziyad.
>
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