<html>Of course, wasn't obvious where was best, I'll do that now thanks. --<div><hr style="height: 1px; background-color:#e67e22; color:#e67e22; border:0px;" />Ken SandsDevelopment Manager - dsi billing services 07803 194347<hr style="height: 1px; background-color:#e67e22; color:#e67e22; border:0px;" /></div> On Monday, May 18, 2020 17:08 BST, Oliver Sander <oliver.sander@tu-dresden.de> wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="adda0c37-57f6-1dbf-1fd6-19e054202899@tu-dresden.de">Hi Ken, can you open an actual bug report at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler and attach the file? Helping is a lot easier with the problematic file. Best, Oliver On 18.05.20 16:31, Ken Sands wrote: > Hello all, I tried to run a pdf through pdftocairo in order to embed some non embedded fonts to ready a file for sending off to a printer. > The fonts embedded just fine, however of the fonts that were already embedded one (helvetica) was assigned a new negative bbox. > > While that doesn't appear to cause any issues with appearance it does cause adobe reader to throw up a BLABLA_Helvetica contains a bad /BBox message box. > > I checked the original file and the font in there has FontBBox[ -951 -481 1446 1122] > > I checked the file after pdftocairo and it's /FontBBox [ 31049 -480 1445 1121 ] > > I edited the resulting file to [ -951 -480 1445 1121 ] and the error is gone, to be sure I diff checked the output and all 3 are visually identical. > > Looking at those numbers it seems to me there is a fairly simple int -> uint thing slipping through somewhere, and I'm happy to try to track it down but wish to narrow my search. > > So I duely googled for a few hours and I'm aware this could well be either cairo or a font library issue rather than poppler however I'm no wiser and hoped one of you could at least shuffle me in the most likely direction, thanks. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Ken > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > poppler@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > </blockquote> </html>