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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:13:38
Message-Id: 20121001191139.GA25943@syscon7.inet
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font by "José Romildo Malaquias"
1 On 09/27/12 22:42, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
2 >Hello.
3 >
4 >Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
5 >message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.
6 >
7 >
8 >$ ps2pdf a.ps
9 >Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
10 >Operand stack:
11 > Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic
12 >Execution stack:
13 > %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
14 >Dictionary stack:
15 > --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)--
16 >Current allocation mode is local
17 >Last OS error: No such file or directory
18 >Current file position is 5611
19 >GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
20 >
21 >
22 >Any clues?
23 >
24 >Romildo
25
26 I had a problem in the past xpdf wasn't able to find the correct fonts, see topic in:
27 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-907720-highlight-fonts.html
28
29 --
30 Joseph