Bug 3748

Summary:	gv can't display most PostScript
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	mas22
Component:	ghostscript	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	mas22
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Description mas22 1999-06-26 18:24:53 UTC

Ghostview on my system, as shipped with 6.0,
cannot display most PostScript files I have tried.
These file all displayed properly under ghostscript
shipped with RH 5.1.

Example:
 gv /usr/share/ghostscript/5.10/examples/alphabet.ps
produces the error message
Error: /invalidfont in findfont
Operand stack:
   (Palatino-Italic)   Font   (Palatino-Italic)   13894
(Palatino-Italic)   --nostringval--   (Palatino-Italic)
URWPalladioL-Ital   Helvetica-Oblique   NimbusSanL-ReguItal
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
--nostringval--   2   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3
%oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   --nostringv

Comment 1 Derek Tattersall 1999-06-28 14:13:59 UTC

Did you upgrade from 5.1 to 6.0?  If you did, try to uninstall all the
tetex RPMs, then reinstall them from the Cd.  Then try your test case
again.  Please report back to Bugzilla an your success or lack
thereof.

Comment 2 mas22 1999-06-29 04:18:59 UTC

Yes, I upgraded from 5.1 to 6.0.  I uninstalled all the teTeX
packages, and manually removed /usr/lib/texmf.  gv still produced
an error message.  Re-installing the packages:
tetex-afm-0.9-17
tetex-dvilj-0.9-17
tetex-xdvi-0.9-17
tetex-dvips-0.9-17
tetex-0.9-17
tetex-doc-0.9-17
tetex-latex-0.9-17

still, gv produced an error.
If I unistall ghostscript, and revert to
ghostscript-fonts-4.0-5
ghostscript-3.33-8
then gv now works.

I take it this was not a reproducable example!  If so,
it may be a support issue, and not a bug.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-29 15:55:59 UTC

what does 'chkfontpath --list` say?

Comment 4 mas22 1999-07-02 05:50:59 UTC

athens% chkfontpath --list
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo

Comment 5 Michael K. Johnson 1999-07-13 17:17:59 UTC

On another computer with gv-3.5.8-7, ghostscript-5.10-7, and
ghostscript-fonts-5.10-3, I cannot reproduce this problem.

Have you tried reverting to the new versions of gv, ghostscript,
and ghostscript-fonts after downgrading?  After upgrading, if
the problem does not go away, try "rpm -y ghostscript" and see
if it complains about the file /usr/share/ghostscript/5.10/Fontmap

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 1999-07-13 20:26:59 UTC

run 'chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi'
and then:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

That should solve the problem.

Comment 7 mas22 1999-07-23 19:57:59 UTC

Adding /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi to the font path
had no effect.

The other suggestion, however, found the problem.
When I updated to 6.0 (via the CDROM), the package
urw-fonts-1.1-8 was not installed, and for some reason
this was not found when I ran rpm --verify.