> > This looks like a bug in gs -- I think if you want long enough, gs
> > eventually finishes. Maybe you should try the current SVN version
> > of it, checking whether it's faster now.
>
> Assuming that it is the same problem as with the Type 42 fonts
> generated by Heirloom dpost, I have tried this for approximately two
> hours yesterday using a two-week old SVN checkout of Ghostscript.
> [...]
>
> I never reported this since I suspected it to be a bug in my code,
> not theirs, and the issue did not have a high priority for me. But
> if others have similar problems using bare TrueType fonts, it might
> actually be a bug in Ghostscript that they do not know about yet.
Well, the lilypond people have already reported it to the GS team,
IIRC. Unfortunately, I can't find the bugzilla entry right now --
it's probably a good idea to report it again.
Werner
