Description of problem: When using the Courier font in a PS file, the font metrics seem to be broken in some way, so the output of ps2pdf is wrong. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.07-33 How reproducible: See the attached small test.ps file. Steps to Reproduce: 1. ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 test.ps 2. look at test.pdf with a PDF reader 3. the "Test Courier" text *should* immediately be followed by the "Test Times 2" text. Additional info: Attached a sample PS file. This sample works fine with older Ghostscript versions, like 5.x.
Created attachment 118255 [details] Sample PS file showing the problem
It also works ok on RHEL3 with Ghostscript 7.05-32.1.9.
What version of urw-fonts do you have installed?
This is with urw-fonts version 2.2-6.
Known urw-fonts bug. See bug #140584.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140584 ***
It might be more appropriate to refer to bug #161434 here (I just found that), which is a RHEL4 bug that is said to be fixed in an errata version (which will be in U2 as far as I can see), as linking to a FC bug does not tell a lot about when this will be solved in RHEL4.