[gentoo-user] Re: ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font

[José Romildo Malaquias]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42:26PM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
> message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.
>
>
> $ ps2pdf a.ps
> Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
> Operand stack:
>    Times-Italic@0   --nostringval--   Times-Italic
> Execution stack:
>    %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
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:78/200(L)--   --dict:59/120(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
> Current file position is 5611
> GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I have filled a bug report:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436500

Romildo