[scribus] Error with pdftops

[Gregory Pittman]

On 01/17/2011 05:25 AM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote:
> I posted
>
>> I guess no one has any idea about the error I'm getting with pdftops
>> as I reported in Vol 34, No 51!!??
>>
>> I got one reply from a guy in Holland I wrote to who thinks it may be
>> a corruption of the pfd file caused by ver1.3.9 - I'm not sure about
>> this and I can't remember if I was using 1.3.8 or 1.3.9 before.
>>
>> Any thoughts or comments from anyone on this one?
>
>
> Joe replied
>
>> Many of us get this as individual emails, not as a digest. Maybe if
>> you were to give us a few details, somebody might have an idea.
>
> Hi Joe - this was my original post....
>
> Hi All
>
> I've just been finishing off my Monthly Journal produced in Scribus
> 1.3.9 and the last step is to reduce the PDF file size using 'pdftops'
> and 'ps2pdf' as discussed before on this Forum. It has worked for the
> past 2 or 3 months for me and I even went back and compressed all my
> past issues for this year.
>
> Today - using the same commands as before I get the following whole
> string of errors...
>
> small selection...
>
> Error: Could not parse ligature component "gaf" of "arabic_gaf_bar" in
> parseCharName
> Error: Could not parse ligature component "arabic" of "arabic_dot" in
> parseCharName
> Error: Could not parse ligature component "dot" of "arabic_dot" in
> parseCharName
> Error: Could not parse ligature component "arabic" of "arabic_2dots" in
> parseCharName
> Error: Could not parse ligature component "2dots" of "arabic_2dots" in
> parseCharName
> Error: Could not parse ligature component "arabic" of "arabic_3dots" in
> parseCharName
> Error: Could not parse ligature component "3dots" of "arabic_3dots" in
> parseCharName
> Error: Could not parse ligature component "arabic" of "arabic_3dots_a"
> in parseCharNam
>
> Anyone got any idea what is going on please???

Looks like maybe it's choking on some arabic glyphs/characters, if I 
read this right.

Greg