[scribus] Error with pdftops

[John Ghormley KJ4UFG]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield <
editor at federalsaints.net> 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???
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian Whitfield.
> Scribus 1.3.9 & Kubuntu 10.04
>
>
Ian,
Some may be, like me, totally ignorant of pdftops and ps2pdf.  In addition,
I'm lost with respect to your reference to "Vol 34, No 51",  I have no clue
what that refers to.

BTW, I updated my Scribus-ng last week and got 1.4.0 as a result.  Can't
tell much difference from 1.3.9, but I'm about to finish my issue of the
magazine for this quarter with 1.4.0 and it seems to work pretty well.
-- 
John Ghormley  KJ4UFG
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*
Walkertown, NC  USA
editor at sera.org
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