IM skews font in vector eps files

[fmw42]

I think I have a solution for you. Just use GS. The following works for me.

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=png256 -r300x300 -sOutputFile=figure.png figure.eps

You may be able to edit the delegates.xml file to use sDEVICE=png256 for one of the eps lines. But I was not successful. However, I am no expert on GS or the delegates.xml file.

See GS documentation at
http://www.ghostscript.com/Documentation.html (select your version of GS) then for example
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.06/Readme.htm (click on use ghostscript link in section 2)
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.06/Use.htm (click on Using Ghostscript With EPS)
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.06/Use.htm#EPS

[LadyCygnus]

Just an update (because https://xkcd.com/979/ -- since I can't be the only one with mysterious italics appearing in eps files right?)

Note: we have an Illustrator script to convert eps to png now. It means a three step process (script to convert xml files, Illustrator to convert figures, combine manually), but it is manageable. I had some free time so decided to step back to look at this again and give an update.

I pulled 170 of our images and did a quick visual sort (using IM display) to categorize them as either "infected" with italics or not. Then wrote a perl script to analyze the image files using IM's verbose command.

All files are in the CMYK color space.

Infected images (139 files):

• Only ONE has TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT as a "spot color" - about 46 others have various other fonts as spot colors (I must have opened other "TimesNewRoman" files and didn't notice the lack of italics when debugging before). This leaves nearly 100 bad files with no "spot color font"
• 91% of the files were created using CS5.1, but the last 10 were (statistically) evenly split between CS 2, 4, 5 and 6 (windows)

Good images (33 files):

• NO spot color fonts
• pretty evenly split between CS5.1 and CS6 (windows); 30% and 42% respectively, but still have 8 created with prior versions

Generally speaking if one file in a grouping is infected then many if not all of the rest of the group will also be. It's a loosely systematic error. Historically speaking most (if not all) of these files were created by an external vendor. I was able to go back and find originals from the vendor, but they are also split between infected and not.

[LadyCygnus]

I think I have a solution for you. Just use GS. The following works for me.

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=png256 -r300x300 -sOutputFile=figure.png figure.eps

You may be able to edit the delegates.xml file to use sDEVICE=png256 for one of the eps lines. But I was not successful. However, I am no expert on GS or the delegates.xml file.

See GS documentation at
http://www.ghostscript.com/Documentation.html (select your version of GS) then for example
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.06/Readme.htm (click on use ghostscript link in section 2)
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.06/Use.htm (click on Using Ghostscript With EPS)
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.06/Use.htm#EPS

I did NOT see this (it snuck onto the next page)....trying now!

[LadyCygnus]

No...still italics and now fuzzy. I'll look through the documentation though to see if there is something user dependent.

Thank you again for searching so long for an answer!

[fmw42]

That is odd. My command with GS worked just fine for me using GS 9.0.6 on your image figure.eps that you provided.

What version of GS do you have and does it include the sDEVICE=png256?

gs -help


GPL Ghostscript 9.06 (2012-08-08)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
-dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages
-g<width>x<height> page size in pixels | -r<res> pixels/inch resolution
-sDEVICE=<devname> select device | -dBATCH exit after last file
-sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Default output device: x11alpha
Available devices:
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Search path:
/opt/local/share/ghostscript/9.06/Resource/Init :
/opt/local/share/ghostscript/9.06/lib :
/opt/local/share/ghostscript/9.06/Resource/Font :
/opt/local/share/ghostscript/fonts :
/opt/local/share/fonts/default/ghostscript :
/opt/local/share/fonts/default/Type1 :
/opt/local/share/fonts/default/TrueType : /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base :
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 : /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
For more information, see /opt/local/share/ghostscript/9.06/doc/Use.htm.
Please report bugs to bugs.ghostscript.com.

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=png256 -r300x300 -sOutputFile=figure.png figure.eps

GPL Ghostscript 9.06 (2012-08-08)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Can't find (or can't open) font file /opt/local/share/ghostscript/9.06/Resource/Font/TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT.
Can't find (or can't open) font file TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT.
Querying operating system for font files...
**** Warning: glyf overlaps cmap, truncating.
Loading TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT font from /Library/Fonts/Times New Roman Italic.ttf... 3877288 2325892 11828548 8000738 3 done.
Loading TimesNewRomanPSMT font from /Library/Fonts/Times New Roman.ttf... 3914304 2364163 12897100 9153642 3 done.

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/misc_tests/c ... figure.png

[fmw42]

You might want to post this problem to the Bugs forum and put a link to this post. You can say that it works in GS, but not via IM. Perhaps one of the developers can either fix it or tell you how to modify the delegates.xml file to make it work.

[LadyCygnus]

This is...solved?...

It turned out to be a font problem - when GS was pointed to the Windows\Fonts folder it worked. Here is the process of figuring it out the problem since I'm not entirely sure what fixed it.

Running GS alone I noticed it was complaining about missing fonts and it was substituting with Times-Italic. I could get it to work if specified a FontPath and embeded the fonts:

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"C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.14\bin\gswin64c.exe"-dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=png256 -r300x300 -sFONTPATH=%windir%/fonts -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sOutputFile=figure.png "figure.eps"

The image was rather ugly - but it was correct. I tried creating the system variable but GS ignored it. Then I began trying to edit the IM deligates file to include these commands and somehow messed everything up so badly I needed to re-install (I don't know how - it looks like a simple call, but IM was having NONE of it and I couldn't "fix" it by undoing it). I initially tried just re-installing GS, but IM continued to freak out.

So:

• Uninstalled both and restarted the computer
• Re-installed GS; unchecking "create the cidfmap for Windows CJK TrueType fonts (why bother since fonts didn't work anyway and I would need to add a manual pointer?) and restarted the computer
• downloaded new release of IM (6.8.9) and installed
• tried running the conversion to see if it at least got the BAD response - instead it worked.

Now my coworker tried these steps and it still failed. However, we then added the system variable, restarted and it worked for him. The only thing I can think of is that it was the system variable and I didn't restart my computer after attempting to add it on mine, yet all the restarts later caused it to work. Although there is the possibility that it was a combination of things. I'm still not sure what the cidfmap does - or now doesn't do. Either way, it works and I'm not going to complain further.

Anyway, here is how to add the system variable in Windows 7 (because it was a pain in the tush to track down each bit of instruction):

• Right-click on Computer and choose Properties
• Click on Advanced System Settings > Environment Variables
• Under System Variables select New...
• Variable Name: GS_FONTPATH
• Variable Value: C:\Windows\Fonts
• OK > OK > OK > Restart

[snibgo]

Congratulations on getting it to work, and thanks for letting us know the solution, even if it isn't pinned down.

When I edit IM's xml files, I always mess it up. So I back them up, and copy lines I'm going to change to somewhere else.