[Gs-code-review] A fix for #517474 "Problem with hyphen in PDF using Minion"

Sun Feb 24 12:41:15 PST 2002

> But, I checked the sample PDFs, and they seem to be created by
> Ghostscript. If that is true, I think there is still a bug in gs7.04's
> pdfwrite device with respect to font handling.  As I haven't access to the
> source PostScript file, I cannot trace it down, though.

Yes, pdfwrite's handling of Widths is incorrect in gs 7.04.  It was
corrected by the fix for SourceForge #495414, checked in on January 17,
2002.  However, PDFs generated by the Adobe PDF library and by other
applications still have this bug.

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