On Mon Aug 31 12:58:29 EDT 2009, [email protected] wrote: > i don't know if this is related to recent postscript > printer troubles, but i have no problems talking to > the local printer. the problem is font support. > to support fonts, gs is run to convert to a postscript > bitmap. unfortunately, gs isn't up to this task: > > ; bind /n/sources/plan9/386/bin/gs /bin/gs # make sure its not me > ; pdf2ps upasexp.pdf /tmp/x.ps > Error: /syntaxerror in -file- > Operand stack: > --nostringval-- 916 6921 40 78 --nostringval-- > 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 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 > --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push > Dictionary stack: > --dict:1122/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:72/200(L)-- > --dict:64/80(ro)(L)-- --dict:37/197(L)-- > Current allocation mode is local > Last OS error: 20 > Current file position is 53619 > AFPL Ghostscript 8.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
using gs 7.04 from the dump works perfectly. bummer! - erik
