On Sat 24 Apr 04, 12:19 PM, Ken Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > --On Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:00:09 AM -0700 Peter Jay Salzman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a postscript file, dissertation.ps that, out of the blue, started > >to look ugly when viewed with gs (or gv which uses gs). The font looks > >thin and spindly. > > It looks like the one on the right is antialiased, while the one on the > left isn't. The one on the left may have substituted a lookalike font, as > well. First thing would be to click the "State" button, select "gv > options" and "ghostscript" options, and look to see if antialiasing is > turned on. > > gs doesn't read fonts through the X server; it loads them from files. "gs > -h" will print the list of directories it uses to search for fonts. It > may be that debian's gs has some of the X font directories in its search > path. If Mark's computer doesn't have X installed then it probably > doesn't have the directories in question, so gs ends up using fonts from > later directories in the search path. Ken, many thanks to you!
Reading what you had to say about gs getting fonts through files, I didn't recall ever configuring gs or gv by hand. I figured maybe they were different packages (like how there's multiple vim packages). They did have different font search paths. And bingo. I had gs-afpl 8.14-2 installed and Mark had gs 7.07-1. Didn't know what the difference was, but I made my packages conform exactly to his, including removing some of my gs font packages. My latex files were back to their beautiful self. I added the extra gsfonts back in (gsfonts-other nd gsfonts-x11), and my ps files were still good. Whatever happened, it must have happened during a recent upgrade of the gs-afpl package. Thanks Ken, you saved me a lot of heartache! Pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
