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| nub3 | hi everybody | 14:51.24 |
| | obviously i am too dumb to read plain instructions ... i want to strip out font information from a pdf | 14:54.37 |
| kens | Hmmm, font information, actual fonts, font streams, or something else ? | 14:55.15 |
| nub3 | actually i want a pure vector document in (encapsulated)postscript which i can convert back to pdf without fonts | 14:56.01 |
| kens | Why do you want an EPS ? | 14:56.19 |
| nub3 | PS is fine, too | 14:56.27 |
| kens | Why not start with a PDF file and produce a new PDF file in one go ? | 14:56.31 |
| nub3 | we havce a customer with PDFs from many different locations and producers | 14:56.52 |
| | and these PDFs need to be pushed into a CRM | 14:57.11 |
| | however the CRM somehow "breaks" the PDF which results in strange chars being displayed in places | 14:57.44 |
| kens | That doesn't really explain why you want to convert PDF to PostScirpt and back to PDF | 14:57.56 |
| | Why not take the original PDF and just create a new one with no fonts ? | 14:58.24 |
| chrisl | nub3: Reading this: https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.21/VectorDevices.htm would be a good start | 14:58.44 |
| kens | Every conversion potentially risks introducing errors, so multiple conversions are bad | 14:59.02 |
| nub3 | how would i convert a PDF to one w/o fonts? | 15:00.26 |
| kens | Use pdfwrite and the command I cannot currently remember :-) | 15:00.43 |
| | NoOutputFonts or something like htat | 15:00.52 |
| nub3 | been there, done that - still no luck | 15:01.05 |
| | also tried -dNOCACHE -dNOCCFONTS -dNOFONTMAP -dNOFONTPATH -dNOPLATFONTS -dNONATIVEFONTMAP | 15:01.34 |
| kens | And how are you verifying that you have no fotns ? Also what version of Ghostscript are you using, on what platofrm and sourced form where ? | 15:01.37 |
| | You can forget most of those switches, they have no effect on pdfwrite | 15:01.52 |
| nub3 | gs 9.14 on ubuntu 14.4 | 15:01.57 |
| kens | Well then you need a newer version | 15:02.05 |
| | NoOutputFonts was only introduced recently, 9.21 or so | 15:02.15 |
| | So a version 4 years old isn't going to have it | 15:02.28 |
| | Hmm,apparenlty its older than I thought | 15:03.47 |
| | 22/07/2014 | 15:03.54 |
| | Which is three months after the release of 9.14 | 15:04.34 |
| | So you need at least 9.15 and you should use the most recent version available, which is 9.21. 9.22 will be released 'shortly' | 15:05.15 |
| nub3 | cant update my main system | 15:05.34 |
| kens | I guess you're out of luck then | 15:05.45 |
| Robin_Watts | nub3: You don't need to update your entire system in order to update ghostscript. | 15:13.32 |
| nub3 | i found a ppa providing 9.15 | 15:13.46 |
| kens | So.. you're saying you *can* upate your system now ? | 15:14.07 |
| nub3 | just tried gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNoOutputFonts -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOutputFile=in.ps in.pdf | 15:14.15 |
| | i can update single parts matching my system specs, but not my entire system | 15:14.37 |
| kens | I didn't suggest you update your system, just Ghostscript | 15:14.52 |
| Robin_Watts | Urm... You mention a "customer" above. Is this part of a server that the customer uses? | 15:14.53 |
| nub3 | no, we do this here in order to have the documents being displayed properly in the new target system | 15:15.38 |
| kens | Anyway, don't convert to PostScript, go straight to PDF | 15:16.00 |
| nub3 | seems to work, thanks guys | 15:16.49 |
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