jdaw1 wrote:Glenn E. wrote:I sent the .ps file to a friend who has GhostScript installed locally, and he was able to generate the .pdf for me. It took 17 minutes, which explains why an online service would abort. The online service probably thinks that the conversion is caught in an infinite loop or something.
That might be the answer. Using Distiller 8 the two .ps files you sent me took 12 seconds and 8 seconds.
Thank you Glenn: you have found the problem. Changing one line to
/InlineTitles false def makes it work in both
PS2PDF.com and
online2pdf.com.
Default parameters will be reverted this evening, and cautionary words added to the manual.
Edit: I’ve had other troubles with
/Helvetica-Bold. Maybe the font is somehow misformed? Perhaps the default value of
TitlesFont should be one of the CMU fonts. Suggestions? Ideally widely available and included with Ghostscript as standard, bold or demi-bold, not italic, not oblique, condensed or demi-condensed, lining figures, and with all of CkDFGKNOSTVW0123456789 resting on the baseline and having the same height.
Edit edit:
/TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT worked on
online2pdf.com but not on
PS2PDF.com. Sigh. Two different problems.