On 01/17/2011 05:25 AM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote: > I posted > >> I guess no one has any idea about the error I'm getting with pdftops >> as I reported in Vol 34, No 51!!?? >> >> I got one reply from a guy in Holland I wrote to who thinks it may be >> a corruption of the pfd file caused by ver1.3.9 - I'm not sure about >> this and I can't remember if I was using 1.3.8 or 1.3.9 before. >> >> Any thoughts or comments from anyone on this one? > > > Joe replied > >> Many of us get this as individual emails, not as a digest. Maybe if >> you were to give us a few details, somebody might have an idea. > > Hi Joe - this was my original post.... > > Hi All > > I've just been finishing off my Monthly Journal produced in Scribus > 1.3.9 and the last step is to reduce the PDF file size using 'pdftops' > and 'ps2pdf' as discussed before on this Forum. It has worked for the > past 2 or 3 months for me and I even went back and compressed all my > past issues for this year. > > Today - using the same commands as before I get the following whole > string of errors... > > small selection... > > Error: Could not parse ligature component "gaf" of "arabic_gaf_bar" in > parseCharName > Error: Could not parse ligature component "arabic" of "arabic_dot" in > parseCharName > Error: Could not parse ligature component "dot" of "arabic_dot" in > parseCharName > Error: Could not parse ligature component "arabic" of "arabic_2dots" in > parseCharName > Error: Could not parse ligature component "2dots" of "arabic_2dots" in > parseCharName > Error: Could not parse ligature component "arabic" of "arabic_3dots" in > parseCharName > Error: Could not parse ligature component "3dots" of "arabic_3dots" in > parseCharName > Error: Could not parse ligature component "arabic" of "arabic_3dots_a" > in parseCharNam > > Anyone got any idea what is going on please???
Looks like maybe it's choking on some arabic glyphs/characters, if I read this right. Greg
