[scribus] Error with pdftops

[Ian "Witty" Whitfield]

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???

Thanks

Ian Whitfield.
Scribus 1.3.9 & Kubuntu 10.04