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missing ghostscript fonts



In my recently installed Etch system, ghostscript seems unable to find some
common fonts.

I'm trying to work with a big pile of lecture images I've made over the years
with Adobe Illustrator, and most of them fail now in gs.  I made a test file
circle.ai that has just a black circle, and gs displays that fine.  A second
test file a.ai has just the letter `A' in Times Italic.  gs fails to display
this and puts out a long error message that includes:

  ERROR: /undefined in ._cjkv_CIDFontmapForAllESP Ghostscript 815.03: \
   Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
  Operand stack:
     --nostringval--   _Times-Italic   Times-Italic   0   0   Times-Italic \
     (*) ...

This is gs-8.15.3.  I have an older Red Hat machine with gs-7.05, and that
displays all of the files correctly and without errors.

On both machines, I'm running all this from an xterm with fvwm window
manager.  "gs -h" shows several font directories that are searched, but not
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1.  I believe that's the location of the fonts I
got by installing gsfonts-x11.  I also have the regular gsfonts installed.
I haven't found a file for Times font so far.

Did some of these fonts disappear for copyright reasons?  How can I make them
available to gs?  I may have all of the AFM and PFB files I would need on an
old Win4Lin (Win98) filesystem and also on Red Hat but am not sure how to
correctly add them.

Thanks.



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