Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:40:04 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr> To: stacey@vickiandstacey.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: ghostscript-gnu-7.07 Message-ID: <3F122614.2050405@snu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <1058093565.64468.20.camel@localhost> References: <3F0F78C0.8090607@snu.ac.kr> <1058006696.64468.0.camel@localhost> <3F10D07D.5000506@snu.ac.kr> <1058093565.64468.20.camel@localhost>
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Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 04:22, Rob Lahaye wrote: > >>Stacey Roberts wrote: >> >>> >>>I was getting this failure last night as well, but has just this minute >>>worked for me as part of portupgrading Gnome-2. >>> >>>Have a go. >> >>Nope, still same problems occur. > > > Shame, try manually pulling down the file from the suggested ftp site > into /usr/ports/distfiles, then retry. That worked, but only by also the modifying the MD5 sum of "Samsung-SmartGDI-all-GS.tar.gz" in distfiles. This is not a clean port upgrade. Please fix. By the way: I suppose this upgrade does not address the printer problem as arose from a discussion between me and Glenn Johnson: ----------------------- Subject: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomes fixed width > Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov> wrote: > >>> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:59:10PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: >> >>>> Since I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (with cups-1.1.18), printing >>>> has a problem with variable width fonts. Variable width fonts are >>>> printed out as fixed width fonts; so text looks ugly and runs over >>>> the lines. >> >>> Are you using an "up-to-date" version of ghostscript? If so, that >>> is the problem. The last version of ghostscript that does not >>> exhibit this problem is ghostscript-gnu-7.05_5. I am not sure >>> about the version number of ghostscript-afpl but recent versions >>> exhibit this problem. >> >> Yes I was up-to-date with ghostscript and that indeed was the problem. >> I forced the deinstall of my ghostscript-gnu-7.07, and installed >> instead from the packages, version 7.05_4. >> And my printing problem has gone now! Thanks. >> >> Is the origin of the problem located? Will it be fixed in the next >> release of ghostscript-gnu? Has this problem been reported to the >> ghostscript-gnu developer community? > > I am not sure but I believe the problem is specific to the FreeBSD > ports. I hope to have some time this weekend to dig into it a bit. ----------------------- Regards, Rob.
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