[SLUG] GNU Ghostscript 6.52 install problems

From: Ben Ostrowsky (ostrowb@tblc.org)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 17:00:57 EST


http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html seemed like such an easy
project when I began...

Okay: Our current Samba 2.0.10 server (2.2.18pre11-va2.1) was running
GNU Ghostscript 5.50, which seems to have had known errors with
Windows-generated PostScript.

So I installed 6.52. I guess maybe it didn't install correctly -- I
don't know.

I've got the new gs binary installed and it's properly located within
$PATH.

"GNU Ghostscript 6.52 (2001-10-20)
 Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved."

I can do 'ps2pdf tiger.ps' and view the resulting tiger.pdf in all its
glory. No problem!

But when I try 'ps2pdf alphabet.ps' I get an ugly error message
(below) that I don't know how to interpret. It's clear there's a font
problem, but what?

I've tried installing ghostscript-fonts-(std|other)-6.50.tar.gz, but I
suspect Fontmap doesn't know about them -- and I'd hate to tell it by
hand.

It'd be so sweet if I could get this to work. The idea is to make PDFs
by telling a Windows machine to print to a Samba "printer" that really
just does ps2pdf and puts the output in the right place.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Ben

Error: /invalidfont in findfont
Operand stack:
   (Palatino-Italic) Font (Palatino-Italic) 334943
(Palatino-Italic) --nostringval-- Times-Italic
NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal (NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal)
NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal
(NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal) NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal
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 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
1 3 %oparray_pop 2 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
false 1 %stopped_push 5 4 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- 5 -1 1 --nostringval--
%for_neg_int_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:986/1476(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:73/200(L)--
--dict:17/17(ro)(G)-- --dict:986/1476(ro)(G)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 933
GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1



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