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From: Daniel Wagener <stelf@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:27:45
Message-Id: 20121001094746.4f4a7960.stelf@gmx.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font by "José Romildo Malaquias"
1 On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:42:26 -0300
2 José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Hello.
5 >
6 > Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
7 > message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.
8 >
9 >
10 > $ ps2pdf a.ps
11 > Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
12 > Operand stack:
13 > Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic
14 > Execution stack:
15 > %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
16 > Dictionary stack:
17 > --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:59/120(L)--
18 > Current allocation mode is local
19 > Last OS error: No such file or directory
20 > Current file position is 5611
21 > GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
22 >
23 >
24 > Any clues?
25 >
26 > Romildo
27 >
28
29 Have had such stuff for quite some time…
30 unfortunately I did not write that down… :(
31
32 I remember it was some problem with font loading in X, somehow the order mattered, had to edit xorg.conf and .xinitrc to get it all right