On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 8:01 AM Flo wrote:
>
> I recompiled the versions 9.24, 9.23 and 9.22:
> It changed from 9.22 to 9.23 . Does anyone has an idea what changed here
> such that the size of the pdf files are bigger?
>
> Flo.
I do not know much about ghostscript pdf conversion. But the
informat
I recompiled the versions 9.24, 9.23 and 9.22:
It changed from 9.22 to 9.23 . Does anyone has an idea what changed here
such that the size of the pdf files are bigger?
Flo.
On 09/28/18 23:54, Flo wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am using ghostscript to make pdf files smaller.
>
> Three days ago I upgra
Richard wrote:
> Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups
> problem? I did try asking here but got no response (problem of
> ghostscript cropping A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing that).
> I have googled with no success and have no idea how to proceed.
Have you tri
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 19:22, ognen wrote:
> Richard Lyons wrote:
>
> > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups
> > problem? I did try asking here but got no response (problem of
> > ghostscript cropping A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing
> > that). I have go
go to the cups admin page (http://localhost:631) - select "manage
printers" then select your printer, after which go to "configure
printer" and then look at "media size" -- check to make sure it is set
correctly (i.e. A3 not A4) -- thats the only thing i can think of that
would cause cropping
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:49:27PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:17:34PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> > Hi group,
> >
> > Since more than a week now, gv doesn't anti-alias my postscript files as
> > beautifully as before: it uses less grays and more black. If I view
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:07:51PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:20:19 +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
>
> > Hi group,
> >
> > Since more than a week now, gv doesn't anti-alias my postscript files as
> > beautifully as before: it uses less grays and more black.
>
> This
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:20:19 +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Since more than a week now, gv doesn't anti-alias my postscript files as
> beautifully as before: it uses less grays and more black.
This is a bug in gs which appeared sometime between 7.07 and 8.14. It
drove me nuts too -
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:17:34PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Since more than a week now, gv doesn't anti-alias my postscript files as
> beautifully as before: it uses less grays and more black. If I view my
> LaTeX generated dvi files they look just as beautiful as they ever did.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/n022003l.pfb is contained in
the gsfonts-x11 package, but it is actually a symbolic link to
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022003l.pfb, which is part of the
gsfonts package.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:02:43PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
> Mike:
>
> I'm using
Mike:
I'm using the Debian install of ghostscript (6.53) and the matching
ghostview install, so this may not answer your query, but
nevertheless
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:53:38PM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote:
>
> I'm hoping someone can tell me how Ghostscript
> (specifically, gs-aladdin 7.04
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:17:36PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote:
>
> Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Try gs-aladdin instead of ghostscript. It has a more-restrictive
> > license and is in non-free (the older versions are GPL'd and exist in
> > main). I don't know about woody, but sa
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try gs-aladdin instead of ghostscript. It has a more-restrictive
> license and is in non-free (the older versions are GPL'd and exist in
> main). I don't know about woody, but sarge has 7.04.
It actually WAS gs-aladdin that I installed on my
potato sys
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The one in unstable is 7.05. I compiled it on my sarge system from the
> unstable source. BTW do you really mean woody? Potato is history
> ;-) Woody is now the stable distribution.
I really AM running potato (except for the fact that
I installed gs_aladdin from
Try gs-aladdin instead of ghostscript. It has a more-restrictive
license and is in non-free (the older versions are GPL'd and exist in
main). I don't know about woody, but sarge has 7.04.
Bob
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:14:37PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote:
>
> The versions of ghostscript in pot
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:14:37 -0600
Mike Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The versions of ghostscript in potato and in woody
> don't do an adequate job of converting postscript
> to pdf (for a postscript file that I produced using
> groff, with some eqn equations). I've been advised
> by Der
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:05:24 +0100 David Goodenough
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -s"OUTPUTFILE=%stdout" \
> -dQUIET -dDEBUG -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH \
> -dNOMEDIAATTRS -s"stdout=%stderr" -
>
> When I d
Thomas Hessling wrote
>Hello everybody, I am using gnuplot to create EPS graphics which I
embed into my LaTeX
>documents. That worked fine so far, but since the 'apt-get upgrade'
last
>weekend I get the following error by GhostScript when trying to display
>those graphics: "Error: /invalidfont in f
Milo Thurston wrote:
> I'm running Debian 3.0, and have run into a problem when viewing
> ps files with gv. This is typical:
>
>
> Error: /invalidfont in findfontGNU Ghostscript 6.51:
> Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> Operand
on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:56:30PM +, Milo Thurston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running Debian 3.0, and have run into a problem when viewing
> ps files with gv. This is typical:
>
>
> Error: /invalidfont in findfon
Hi Timo,
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:45, Timo Boewing wrote:
>
> dunno if that would help, but please try these:
>
> a) check if you have "dir" lines in /etc/X11/XftConfig (dunno if this
> applies, had to use id for font AA in KDE...but am back to GNOME again
> ;-] )
> b) reinstall XFonts (quite
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 00:43, Craig Dickson wrote:
>
> Yes, I got ghostscript working again by setting the GS_LIB environment
> variable in /etc/profile:
>
>GS_LIB=/usr/share/gs/6.51:/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
>export GS_LIB
The problem is gone. Thank you very much!
Thomas
Thomas He?ling wrote:
> I am using gnuplot to create EPS graphics which I embed into my LaTeX
> documents. That worked fine so far, but since the 'apt-get upgrade' last
> weekend I get the following error by GhostScript when trying to display
> those graphics: "Error: /invalidfont in findfont" (pl
Hi Thomas,
dunno if that would help, but please try these:
a) check if you have "dir" lines in /etc/X11/XftConfig (dunno if this
applies, had to use id for font AA in KDE...but am back to GNOME again
;-] )
b) reinstall XFonts (quite large...if not using a fast inet conn)
c) try to embed the
thomas anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> are there any *significant* advantages to using gs-aladdin over gnu gs aside
> from the latter being a newer version?
The version(s) of gs-aladdin in Debian is considerably better at
making PDF files than the gnu gs in Debian. For printing on HPs, it
apt-get install {magicfilter|apsfilter}
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:39:37AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm trying to setup a non-postscript capable printer in /etc/printcap.
> According to /usr/shared/doc/gs/Unix-lpr.htm there should be a script
> lprsetup.sh "A shell script which s
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:31:25PM +0100, Will Collins wrote:
> I untarred and un gzipped it, like the instructions say all goes well up to
> the 'make' command part then it spits out errors.
You must be compiling source tarball.
Get source from latest unstable (if there is .diff, get them) then u
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 11:31:12AM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote:
> I noticed that the version of GS in Woody is 5.10, while the newest
> stable release listed on the ghostscript home page is 6.01. I'm
> curious: why is that?
Aladdin releases the latest ghostscript under a license which is less
free t
The package name is gs. I don't _think_ you need anything else but I
could be forgetting something
Tom
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:40:35PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> During my ftp install of debian 2.2 I don't believe I got a full set of
> packages..? Anyhow, when I try to configure my print
Solved. I found it with ghostview..
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:40:35PM -0700 10, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> During my ftp install of debian 2.2 I don't believe I got a full set of
> packages..? Anyhow, when I try to configure my printer using printtool,
> it tells me that ghostscr
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Agner-Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>forgot to mention that I installed ghostscript as a .deb; went back to the
>Packages for Slink and see that I should have installed gsfonts -- thanx
>Philip, that was a nice nudge
I was under the impression that you wanted even more a
ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: ghostscript message
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Agner-Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >When running gv (as a replacement for ghostview), I get a
> >Ghostscript message '/invalidfont in f
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Agner-Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When running gv (as a replacement for ghostview), I get a
>Ghostscript message '/invalidfont in findfont' (specifically, Times
>New Roman).
Ad you don't get that with ghostview? Both are just frontends to gs
and this is an error messa
> The problem is related to the TrueType font definitions for gs.
>
> Invoking gs with no arguments produces an error message with the bad
> gs.Fontmap file.
>
> The problem is line 564 of gs.Fontmap. There is some garbage data in
> the Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold Oblique definition line. I've
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:02:16AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:51:13PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > I'm finding errors with ghostscript interpreted viewers, including 'gv'
>
> Following up to myself
>
> There are a few debian-bug posts suggesting
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:51:13PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I'm finding errors with ghostscript interpreted viewers, including 'gv'
Following up to myself
There are a few debian-bug posts suggesting a problem with gs and
/etc/gs.Fontmap.
The following strace exerpt run with *no*
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Robert King wrote:
> Following an upgrade from hamm to slink, gv (and ghostview) complain about
> opening my postscript files with the following error message.
>
> Unknown paper size: (A4).
> Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow
>
> Downgrading gs to 3.33-7 fixed this proble
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 10:41:52AM -0800, Walter Kotorynski wrote:
> Running gv gives message "Exec of gs failed: Not a directory"
> and Dismiss just leaves the program running until manual intervention.
>
> setuid.Debian suggests chmod u+s /usr/bin/gs which doesn't help.
>
> setuid.Debian also s
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:59:13PM -0700, John Greer wrote:
> I was installing GS and magicfilter last night (Hamm, krnl 2.0.34) so
> that I can print from Netscape etc. I renamed my old printcap and
> ran magicfilterconfig. The result being that I can print text and but
> still not postscript
I was installing GS and magicfilter last night (Hamm, krnl 2.0.34) so
that I can print from Netscape etc. I renamed my old printcap and
ran magicfilterconfig. The result being that I can print text and but
still not postscript. Is there a howto somewhere that I can read??
The printer I am u
On 12 Feb 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert LaGrasse) writes:
>
> > I've installed ghostscript from the debian 1.3.1 cd and the stuff that
> > relates to it as well. In going through some of the doc, I discovered I
> > should have a few mak files, devs.mak for example. These fi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert LaGrasse) writes:
> I've installed ghostscript from the debian 1.3.1 cd and the stuff that
> relates to it as well. In going through some of the doc, I discovered I
> should have a few mak files, devs.mak for example. These files are nowhere
> to be found. Anyone know whe
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 10:56:51PM -0500, Robert LaGrasse wrote:
> I've installed ghostscript from the debian 1.3.1 cd and the stuff that
> relates to it as well. In going through some of the doc, I discovered I
> should have a few mak files, devs.mak for example. These files are nowhere
> to be fo
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm just working a bit with ghostscript and just can't figure out how to
> make it print in my Epson Stylus COLOR 500.
Alan Williams has put up a web-page on just this subject; it's at
www.pe.net/~williams/Stylus/Stlyus.html
The information there was
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> I'm just working a bit with ghostscript and just can't figure out how to
> make it print in my Epson Stylus COLOR 500.
>
> I'm using Ghostscript 3.33 (package gs_3.33-5 of bo) and the following
> command line:
>
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed gs 5 a while ago, but I havn't been able to make it work
> with my Epson Stylus Color 600. When I install the package, it says
> that it can't be configured (for reason which I forget at the
> moment). It seems to try to work though, but I can't
> On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Britton wrote:
> I have tried to upload the package a lot of time ago, but it is still
> in the Incomming directory (the queue has not been processed for a looong
> time...)
>
> You can find the package on my machine (here in Europe, sorry):
>
> http://www.di.unipi.it/~pis
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Britton wrote:
>
> I heard that someone had packaged Ghostscript 5 for the old libc, but all
> I can find in non-free is gs 4. Anyone know where the new one is, if it
> exists?
Hi,
I have tried to upload the package a lot of time ago, but it is still
in the Incomming direc
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Pierre Sarrazin wrote:
> 1. What is the precise incantation to ask Ghostscript to print a
>postscript file to my Brother HL-660 laser printer? I used to be
>able to do this in the past, but I can't remember the options.
You could consider to install magicfilter:
: Mag
Dave Restall wrote:
>
> > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
> >
> Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN,
> shouldn't the people who decide these things be thinking
> "Hey perhaps we're doing something wrong here ?".
>
Hamm, bo, rex are codenames.
These are "
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Dave Restall wrote:
> > >.. but that's hamm only.
> > >
> > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
> Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't
> the people who decide these things be thinking "Hey perhaps we're doing
> something wron
On 07-Oct-97 Dave Restall wrote:
>Hi,
>> >
>> >.. but that's hamm only.
>> >
>> Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
>>
>> Ignorant
>>
>
>Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't
>the people who decide these things be thinking "Hey perhaps we're doi
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Dave Restall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > >
> > >.. but that's hamm only.
> > >
> > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
> >
> >
> > Ignorant
> >
> >
>
> Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't
> the people who decide these things be
> I wrote:
> > I have used dselect to install ghostview 1.5-13, gs 4.01-2,...
>
> joost witteveen writes:
> > You definately need to upgrade you gs to gs-aladdin-4.03.
>
> Thanks. Where do I find it? And why didn't dselect tell me about this
> dependency?
You find it in debian. Same section wh
> At 10:41 PM 06-10-97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote:
>
> >
> >.. but that's hamm only.
> >
> Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
Well, you are using debian-1.3.x, codenamed "bo".
We (the developpers) are working on debian-2.0 (not released yet),
and we haven't quite finished wit
Hi,
> >
> >.. but that's hamm only.
> >
> Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
>
>
> Ignorant
>
>
Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't
the people who decide these things be thinking "Hey perhaps we're doing
something wrong here ?".
'nuff sa
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote:
> At 10:41 PM 06-10-97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote:
>
> >
> >.. but that's hamm only.
> >
> Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
>
>
> Ignorant
>
"hamm" is the unstable distribution of Debian. The name comes from the
pig in Toy Story.
Ad
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote:
> At 10:41 PM 06-10-97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote:
>
> >
> >.. but that's hamm only.
> >
> Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
The current project leader of Debian, Bruce Perens, works for Pixar,
the computer company that made the "Toy Story
I wrote:
> I have used dselect to install ghostview 1.5-13, gs 4.01-2,...
joost witteveen writes:
> You definately need to upgrade you gs to gs-aladdin-4.03.
Thanks. Where do I find it? And why didn't dselect tell me about this
dependency?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing
At 10:41 PM 06-10-97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote:
>
>.. but that's hamm only.
>
Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
Ignorant
--
Lucas Liacopoulos"some assembly required" ... NOT!!
[EMAIL PROTEC
> I have used dselect to install ghostview 1.5-13, gs 4.01-2, and
You definately need to upgrade you gs to gs-aladdin-4.03.
Or, use the new gs-aladdin-5.0, but that's hamm only.
--
joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE F
On 28 Aug 1997 18:06:02 +0200 in an-user you wrote:
> > "AK" == Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> AK> I just installed the ghostscript package, and it's working great, except
> AK> for this: every postscript document I print ends up with its last line
> cut
> AK> off. How can I stop th
> "AK" == Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AK> I just installed the ghostscript package, and it's working great, except
AK> for this: every postscript document I print ends up with its last line cut
AK> off. How can I stop this? I'm using a Canon BJ-200e printer.
Are you using the sam
> It seems to me, the GhostScript from 1.2.7 doesn't find it's fonts.
> Did someone else make this experience? Is this a common Bug? How can
> I configure this correctly?
the fonts are distributed seperately (in gsfonts). As gs is very well
usable without the gsfonts package, gs only suggests gs
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
phil >
phil >On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:21:53 +1100 Fundamental ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
phil >et) wrote:
phil >
phil >> hi all, having installed ghostscript and its associated libraries i get
phil >> the following error ... gs: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
phil
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:21:53 +1100 Fundamental ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
et) wrote:
> hi all, having installed ghostscript and its associated libraries i get
> the following error ... gs: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
Check that:
1) You have xlib6 installed.
2) You have a /usr/X11R6/lib line in /
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
> Is ghostscript a package? or is this a dumb question?
>
> I searched the debian archives, found a lot of fonts and addons for
> ghostscript, but no ghostscript:(
When searching for packages, I believe that better than browsing the ftp
archive is to get t
On Jan 16, Bob Clark wrote
> I think you want the gs package,
Yes. The non-free one if possible, because it is better.
> actually gv is probably "better".
No. ghoscript is a PostScript interpreter, with very limited viewing
capabilities; gv and ghostview are PostScript viewers that use ghostscri
Fundamental wrote:
>
> Is ghostscript a package? or is this a dumb question?
>
> I searched the debian archives, found a lot of fonts and addons for
> ghostscript, but no ghostscript:(
>
> PaChi,
>
> michl
>
> electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/
>
> N
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
> Whenever I have had such problems, it usually results from the fonts being in
> the incorrect directory. I seem to remember that sometimes GS expects its
> fonts under /usr/local/share/... It seems to depend on how the binary was
> compiled (though I am
Whenever I have had such problems, it usually results from the fonts being in
the incorrect directory. I seem to remember that sometimes GS expects its
fonts under /usr/local/share/... It seems to depend on how the binary was
compiled (though I am not sure). I do not know how to tell GS in what
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
>
> I'm getting a error concerning fonts not found:
>
> Aladdin Ghostscript 4.01 (1996-7-10)
> Can't find (or can't open) font file n021003l.pfb.
> Unable to substitute for font.
> Error: /invalidfont in findfont
> Operand stack:
>--nostringval-- Time
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a error concerning fonts not found:
>
> Aladdin Ghostscript 4.01 (1996-7-10)
Please upgrade to gs-aladdin-4.03-recent. That will fix it.
Or, use gs-3.33-recent.
--
joost witteveen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Use Debian/GNU Lin
>
>
> Since the last version of GhostScript was included in the distribution,
> I can't use magicfilter to automagically print my PostScript files. The
> reason seems to be : ghostscript now uses SVGAlib. To get I/O
> permissions for a 'base' user, it should then be set to +s I believe. Is
> that
joost witteveen writes:
> Sure, that's the best. But a lot of Debian maintainers don't really like
> "non-free" to begin with, and don't like to give non-free the same
> prefferential treatment the main system gets.
Then get rid of it. Do it right, or not at all.
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J
> There's nothing inherently unstable about non-free software, so I
> think "non-free" and "unstable" should be orthogonal concepts. How
> about a "non-free/stable" in which nothing depends on anything outside
> of "stable", and a "non-free/unstable", in which anything goes?
>
Sure, that's the b
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes:
> People seem to think that "non-free" is more stable than "unstable".
> This is AFAIK not the case ("non-free" doesn't have the sabilising
> time "stable/buzz" has), and therefore I don't know why people start
> installing
>
> Hi. When I try to install the Debian ghostscript package, dselect
> notes that it depends on another package which is not available.
It is available.
People seem to think that "non-free" is more stable than "unstable".
This is AFAIK not the case ("non-free" doesn't have the sabilising
time
It is the Aladdin version of gs you want. It is in the non-free
directory.
--Derek Lee
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