Description of problem: ghostview is failing when trying to find fonts in a wrong location due to the empty Fontmap file distributed within the package. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Just print to file in OpenOffice using any valid postscript driver and try to see the PS file with ghostscript. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure a postscript printer in OpenOffice 2. Print any document to a file 3. Try to open it with ghostscript (or try to convert it to pdf). Actual results: The postscript file is valid (I think), but ghostview can't find the fonts correctly and fails to display it (displays blank pages). Expected results: The psotscript file should be read correctly... :) Additional info: The problem was solved by doing what I read in this post: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-February/msg03919.html I think the ghostscript package should be revised. I'm Cc'ing this message to the packager of ghostscript.
$ cat Fontmap %! % See Fontmap.GS for the syntax of real Fontmap files. (Fontmap.GS) .runlibfile So Fontmap delegates to Fontmap.GS anyway. You probably modified Fontmap in the first place, and since that file is marked as %config the new package will have created a Fontmap.rpmnew. Just mv Fontmap.rpmnew Fontmap.
There was no Fontmap.rpmnew file, just an empty (0 bytes) Fontmap. Deleting both files (Fontmap and Fontmap.GS), and forcing reinstall of ghoscript seems to work. I should have seen the contents of Fontmap before overwriting it the first time. Nevertheless, more people had the same problem. I made a complete install of RedHat 9, keeping only my /home partition. Since then, FC1 and FC2 where upgrades from the privious. It's strange I didn't noticed this problem before... and I don't remember to have changed this file by hand...
Okay, the crucial information was that this was an upgrade. Something to look into then.
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