PDF files created by BroadGun with embedded TrueType 1 fonts may not print in RHEL
Issue
- Some PDF Files generated by BroadGun pdfMachine (V14.58) do not print. These are my findings so far:
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Printing a PDF file with PFB fonts may fail. The CUPS
error_log
may contain the following:Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1951 1 3 %oparray_pop 1950 1 3 %oparray_pop 1934 1 3 %oparray_pop 1820 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1178/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:84/200(L)-- --dict:66/75(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 11024 GPL Ghostscript 9.15: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 & 7
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.4.2 & 1.6.3
- poppler-utils-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1 &
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