Problem with hyphen in PDF

Under some cirucumstances, hyphens in PDF files are not correctly displayed by
bs-esp. See <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295576> for
details and a test case. The there mentioned patch works for me with Hoaray
Array-4 Live CD. I would guess, that installed versions are affected, too.

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:38:24 +0100
From: Ralf Stubner <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Problem with hyphen in PDF

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Package: gs-esp
Version: 7.07.1-9
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Viewing the attached PDF file with gs-esp (either directly or via gv),
the hyphen is overprinted by the following 'a'. The file displays
correctly with xpdf or Acrobat Reader. This is an old bug which was fix
but for some reasons never made it to GPL GS and hence ESP GS. See
<URL:http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517474> and
<URL:http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-code-review/2002-February/002030.html>.
The attached patch solves this for me.

cheerio
ralf

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Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
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fixed in 7.07.1-9ubuntu3