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Re: ghostview on linux - problem



Hi Jonathan,

You are right, it solves the problem.

Thanks,
Shlomo.

> From benavrhm@tcltek.co.il  Sun Nov 17 15:12:44 1996
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 14:43:18 +0200 (IST)
> From: Jonathan Ben-Avraham <benavrhm@tcltek.co.il>
> X-Sender: benavrhm@banjo
> To: Shlomo Reches <shlomor@msil.sps.mot.com>
> Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il
> Subject: Re: ghostview on linux - problem
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> On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Shlomo Reches wrote:
> 
> > Ghostview complains of missing fonts on my Linux machine for
> > certain pages in a document (ghostview works for me fine for
> > many other documents), while same document is browsed by ghostview
> > on SUN with out any problem.
> > 
> > I compared Linux and Sun available fonts (font directories content
> > as well as fonts.dir and fonts.alias in each directory) and verified
> > in Linux that X configuration file includes all fonts pathes. Both
> > machines seems to have exactly the same fonts.
> > 
> > Could any one think what the problem could be ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Shlomo.
> 
> If you are using Ghostscript 3.33 then do:
> [benavrhm@banjo benavrhm]$ gs -h
> Aladdin Ghostscript 3.33 (4/10/1995)
> Copyright (C) 1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights 
> reserved.
> Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
> Available devices:
>         x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11mono deskjet djet500 djet500c dnj650c
>         laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor
>         cdjmono cdj500 cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 bj10e bj200
>         bjc600 epson eps9mid eps9high epsonc ibmpro jetp3852 faxg3
>         faxg32d faxg4 cp50 tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 pcxmono pcxgray
>         pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw ppm
>         ppmraw bit bitrgb bitcmyk tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4
>         tifflzw tiffpack
> Language interpreters:
>         PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
> Search path:
>     .
>     /usr/share/ghostscript/3.33:/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts
>                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
>     -c quit              (as the last switch) exit after processing files
>     -d<name>[=<token>]   define name as token, or true if no token given
>     -dNOPAUSE            don't pause between pages
>     -g<width>x<height>   set width and height (`geometry'), in pixels
>     -q                   `quiet' mode, suppress most messages
>     -r<res>              set resolution, in pixels per inch
>     -s<name>=<string>    define name as string
>     -sDEVICE=<devname>   select initial device
>     -sOutputFile=<file>  select output file: embed %d or %ld for page #,
>                            - means stdout, use |command to pipe
>     -                    read from stdin (e.g., a pipe) non-interactively
> For more information, see the (plain text) file  use.doc  in the directory
>         /usr/doc/ghostscript-3.33.
> 
> Notice that the the search path for the fonts is 
> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts but that the fonts are actually installed 
> in/usr/share/ghostscript/3.33/fonts. That is, you have to make a link
> like:
> cd /usr/share/ghostscript; ln -s 3.33/fonts fonts
> 
> I spent about two hours before I figured this one out. I'm using the new
> Cheap*bytes Redhat (Colgate) 4.0 which I am generally very pleased with.
> I have extra copies if you want BTW.
> 
>  - yba
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