[NTLUG:Discuss] GS and Postscript debugging.

[Kevin Brannen]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 00:07:34 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>  said:
> > Christopher Browne wrote:
> > > % gs
> > > Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 (1998-9-16)
> >
> > OK - I have 5.10 which comes with SuSE 6.2 - installed with all the
> > defaults 'out of the box'.

I have suse 6.2 with gs 5.10 installed as well.

> > > GS>/Times-Roman findfont
> > > Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pf
> b... 1883292 570593 1309076 23449 0 done.
> >
> > Hmmm - your machine is obviously finding a suitable font.  I have no /usr/lib
> /ghostscript directory...
> 
> Hm.
> 
> - That may imply a missing fonts package.  You may have installed
>   Ghostscript, but no fonts.  This is a quite likely option.
> 
> - Fonts sometimes reside under /usr/share/ghostscript; take a look
>   there.

[240 ~ /home/kevin] locate n021003l.pf
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfm
[241 ~ /home/kevin]

This is where those files are for me.  You should find them there too.

HTH,
Kevin
(who's been told suse6.3 is being FedEx'd today ;-)