Package: ghostscript
Version: 8.71~dfsg-4
Severity: important
Tags: sid

A program of mine that renders text by converting it to Unicode
encoding recently stopped working. The following PostScript sequence
illustrates the problem:

----
/tmpstr 255 string def

/Unicode /Decoding findresource
dup length dict /UnicodeEncode exch def
{exch UnicodeEncode 3 1 roll put} forall
32 1 126
  {
    dup tmpstr cvs print ( => ) print
    dup UnicodeEncode exch known
      {
        UnicodeEncode exch get tmpstr cvs
      }
      {
        (?)
      }
    ifelse
    print
    (\n) print
  }
for
----

This gets the Unicode decoding resource and prints out the mapping from
printable ASCII characters to corresponding glyph names. Part of its
output is shown below:

104 => h
105 => i
106 => LJ010000
107 => LK010000
108 => LL010000
109 => LM010000
110 => n
111 => o

What are those "LJxxx", "LKxxx" etc glyph names? Similar odd names appear
at other places in the output. They fail to map to valid glyphs in the font,
and I end up with gaps in the text layout.

Ghostscript also displays the message "Warning: the map file cidfmap was not 
found"
each time it starts. Could this be related?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_NZ.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii  debconf [debc 1.5.32                     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils   3.2.3                      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  defoma        0.11.11                    Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  ghostscript [ 8.71~dfsg-4                The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  gs-common     8.71~dfsg-4                Dummy package depending on ghostsc
ii  gsfonts       1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii  libc6         2.10.2-7                   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgs8        8.71~dfsg-4                The Ghostscript PostScript/PDF int

Versions of packages ghostscript recommends:
pn  psfontmgr                     <none>     (no description available)

ghostscript suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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