Hi Mike,
> So it is my first ever attempt at using Groff.
Welcome!
> The generated pdf file doesn't have any paragraphs when viewed
> by Adobe Reader XI Version 11.00.08 on Windows 8 64-bit. It is
> nothing but title text.
...and the "- 1 -" page number at the bottom?
> But if I convert the resultant pdf to a PNG using pdftopng 3.04 on
> Fedora, the title text and the paragraph text appears.
That's odd, because it doesn't appear for me; I get the same as viewing
the PDF. And if I look at the PDF's contents, I don't think the text is
there. The qdf(1) program can make the PDF more readable.
$ qpdf --qdf mike.pdf mike.qdf
$ grep BaseFont mike.qdf
/BaseFont /Times-Bold
/BaseFont /Times-Roman
$
$ grep -n '(.*)' mike.qdf
19: /CreationDate (D:20140905225609-4'00')
20: /Creator (groff version 1.22.2)
21: /ModDate (D:20140905225609-4'00')
22: /Producer (gropdf version 1.22.2)
104: /Title (Using Groff/Mom like Markdown)
172:0.000 Tw [(Using Gr)] TJ
174:0.000 Tw [(off/Mom lik)] TJ
176:0.000 Tw [(e Markdo)] TJ
178:0 Tw (wn) Tj
196:0 Tw [(-) -83.36 ] TJ
199:0 Tw [(1) -83.36 ] TJ
202:0 Tw (-) Tj
493:<< /Registry (Adobe)
494:/Ordering (UCS)
$
The initial strings up to line 104 are PDF metadata, then the printable
text follows to 202.
> I'm guessing that I was supposed to embed a font, maybe, in the PDF
> file itself somehow.
No, it's not that, since the fonts used are boring and common and the
missing text isn't in the PDF. :-)
Cut PDF out of the equation to see if that's where the problem lies. Go
for PostScript instead and have a third party produce the PDF, e.g.
groff -mom mike.tr | ps2pdf - mike.pdf
Cheers, Ralph.
