Re: Ghostscript cannot find CMaps in Poppler

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 2/6/2018 8:40 PM, Vonobow Smith wrote:
>   From Cygwin which is bundled with Ghostscript 9.21,
> Ghostscript cannot find CMap's at all. As a result, CJK characters
> cannot be rendered at all.
> 
>> $ gsnd
>> GPL Ghostscript 9.22 (2017-10-04)
>> Copyright (C) 2017 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
>> GS>/UniJIS-UTF8-H /CMap findresource
>> Error: /undefinedresource in findresource
> 
> This is caused by incorrect setting of search path for Ghostscript,
> or the directory hierarchy of Poppler.
> 
>   GS search path is set as following:
> 
> $ gs --help
>> GPL Ghostscript 9.22 (2017-10-04)
>> Copyright (C) 2017 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>> Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
> ... snip ...
>> Search path:
>>     /usr/share/ghostscript/9.22/Resource/Init :
>>     /usr/share/ghostscript/9.22/lib :
>>     /usr/share/ghostscript/9.22/Resource/Font :
>>     /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts : /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35 :
>>     /usr/share/fonts : /usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-CNS1 :
>>     /usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-GB1 :
>>     /usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Japan1 :
>>     /usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Japan2 :
>>     /usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Korea1
> 
> However, CMap files are placed at:
>> $ cd /usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Japan1/; ls
>> 78-EUC-H                Adobe-Japan1-H-CID   UniHojo-UTF32-H
>> 78-EUC-V                Adobe-Japan1-H-Host  UniHojo-UTF32-V
>> 78-H                    Adobe-Japan1-H-Mac   UniHojo-UTF8-H
> ... snip ...
> 
> The problem is directory hierachy lacks the element "CMap".
> CMap files must be found in CMap directory under the search path, like:
> 
> /usr/share/poppler/cMap/Adobe-Japan1/CMap/UniJIS-UTF8-H
>                                       ^^^^
> The old version of the Ghostscript held CMap's under:
> 
> /usr/share/ghostscript/ver.sion/Resources/CMap
> 
> and this is correct.
> 
> The easiest way to solve this problem is creating symbolic links
> which name is "CMap" in each directories containing CMap files,
> target of the links are the directories itself, like that:
> 
> cd /usr/share/poppler/cMap; for i in *; do (cd $i; ln -s . CMap); done

Thanks for the report.  I'll fix this in a slightly different way with a 
new ghostscript release.  It might take a week or so before I can get to 
this.

Ken


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