On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 03:33:11 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I'm finding gv is almost unusable under Sid due to font errors, e.g.: > > > Error: /invalidfontGNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit > code 1 in findfont > Operand stack: > F6_0 1 1 --nostringval-- Helvetica Font Helvetica > 333398 Helvetica --nostringval-- Courier NimbusMonL-Regu > (NimbusMonL-Regu) NimbusMonL-Regu (NimbusMonL-Regu) > NimbusMonL-Regu > Execution stack: > %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > %--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- > %--nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push > %1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 > %--nostringval-- > > The file I'm attempting to read in this case (others produce similar > errors) is: > > http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/ukgovtoss.ps.gz > > gv/gs version: > > gv package: Version: 1:3.5.8-22 > gs package: Version: 6.51-5 > > > I've got a feeling this is related to font paths. In my > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, I have the following fontpath lines: Well, it wouldn't be the X font path ... See /etc/gs.Fontmap. The fontmap file shouldn't have full paths for standard PS fonts, as ghostscript should known to look in /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts for them. I recall seeing some posts about setting a GS_LIB environment variable. It shouldn't be necessary, but perhaps the package was built improperly (so gs doesn't know where to look for fonts)? Course, I've been using the gs-aladdin package, and it looks like apt wants to remove it in favor of gs-6.51-6 ... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
