Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:10:09 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poscript display problems Message-ID: <48756F81.5090304@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <4874E756.7090908@smo.de> References: <4873B275.8050504@telenix.org> <4873C0D9.3040306@wallnet.com> <4873D209.5060506@telenix.org> <4873D657.2080706@wallnet.com> <4873D665.2060202@telenix.org> <4874E756.7090908@smo.de>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philipp Ost wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Tim Kellers wrote: >> >>> 55 completely blank pages >> >> >> well, thanks very much, Tim. You and Phil Ost tested, and I found out >> that our >> FreeBSD-ports installed gs seems to have some sickness, when being >> asked to >> display PS files that don't have embedded fonts ... because that's >> what this is. > > I see this too. I get the following error when displaying the files with > Ghostview: > > Error: /typecheck in --setscreen-- > Operand stack: > 6.01146 0.0 --dict:4/4(ro)(L)-- 4 4 Frequency 6.01146 > Execution stack: > %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1905 1 3 > %oparray_pop 1904 1 3 %oparray_pop 1888 1 3 %oparray_pop > 1771 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop > .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 > %stopped_push --nostringval-- 1883 3 4 %oparray_pop 1821 3 > 4 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --dict:4/4(ro)(L)-- --nostringval-- 4 %dict_continue --nostringval-- > Dictionary stack: > --dict:1146/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:128/200(L)-- > --dict:286/400(L)-- > Current allocation mode is local > GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Yeah, Phil, it seems to be a gs font problem, and a LOT of things use gs (like ps2pdf). I'm sorry, my disability means I need to move slower than I personally think is reasonable, but leave me a day or so with it, I'll puzzle this out. My error list is exactly as yours is. > > Program version: > > $ pkg_info | grep ghost > ghostscript-gpl-8.62_2 GPL Postscript interpreter > ghostview-1.5_1 An X11 front-end for ghostscript > $ > >> I'll be investigating it further. I have already verified that at >> least some >> of the Linux-derived gs ports display this fine, so it's a ports >> problem of some >> kind, because of the testing, and I know my gs and gs fonts are >> installed the >> way they should be. > > evince-2.22.2_2 has also problems displaying the files. I don't know if > evince uses ghostscript as a backend though. > ps2pdf can't convert them also, it bombs out with the same error message > as above. > > I'm running 7-STABLE if this matters. > > > HTH, > Philipp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh1b4EACgkQz62J6PPcoOljdACfRbTI9ZkhQ+3dAWWbpqfTY2BA wzYAn1bZC/YtZfLTKmyNNNpjEp77I+oH =5boa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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