Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:42:26 -0300 José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica. $ ps2pdf a.ps Error: /invalidfont in /findfont Operand stack: Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop Dictionary stack: --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: No such file or directory Current file position is 5611 GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Any clues? Romildo Have had such stuff for quite some time… unfortunately I did not write that down… :( I remember it was some problem with font loading in X, somehow the order mattered, had to edit xorg.conf and .xinitrc to get it all right
Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font
On 09/27/12 22:42, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: Hello. Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica. $ ps2pdf a.ps Error: /invalidfont in /findfont Operand stack: Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop Dictionary stack: --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: No such file or directory Current file position is 5611 GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Any clues? Romildo I had a problem in the past xpdf wasn't able to find the correct fonts, see topic in: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-907720-highlight-fonts.html -- Joseph
[gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font
Hello. Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica. $ ps2pdf a.ps Error: /invalidfont in /findfont Operand stack: Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop Dictionary stack: --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: No such file or directory Current file position is 5611 GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Any clues? Romildo
