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Re: Ghostscript fonts missing



on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:56:30PM +0000, Milo Thurston (mith@ceh.ac.uk) wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running Debian 3.0, and have run into a problem when viewing
> ps files with gv. This is typical:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Error: /invalidfont in findfontGNU Ghostscript 6.51: 
> Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> Operand stack:
> elvetica   Font   Helvetica   327098   Helvetica   --nostringval--   
> Courier   NimbusMonL-Regu   (NimbusMonL-Regu)   NimbusMonL-Regu   
> (NimbusMonL-Regu)   NimbusMonL-Regu
> xecution stack:
> %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   
> 1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %s
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The gsfonts package is installed  but I cannot read most postscript 
> documents.  Those that I have created with latex & dvips are
> readable, though.
> I also tried editing /etc/X11/XF86config-4 according to an
> archived post describing "missing" fonts after upgrades,
> but that did not work either.
> Suggestions would be most welcome.
> Thanks,
> Milo.

Only confirming:  I've had the same problem, and Google reports it's a
persistent issue.  I'd file a bug.

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