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Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2

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In article <ip4j4d$oap$1@online.de>, helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de 
says...

> PostScript files created by the Fortran program.  I'm sure this worked
> back then, but that was an older version of VMS.  Does it perhaps have
> something to do with the lack of Display PostScript on newer versions of
> VMS? 

No, Ghostscript doesn't rely on Display PostScript (in fact Ghostscript 
is capable of being a DPS server).


> The error is 
> 
>    Error: /invalidfont in findfont

Unfortunately you didn't quote the rest of the error, so we don't know 
which font it can't find. However all the fonts you are using seem to 
have 'unusual' names, such as Times-BoldItalicR. The trailing capital R 
looks like it ought to be assigned to a re-encoded font, but there 
doesn't seem to be any code to find the original font name and rename 
it.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but that looks like the problem. FWIW the current 
version of Ghostscript has some crude font matching which appears to use 
Helvetica-BoldItalic and Times-Roman-Italic as substitutes, this does 
not produce any errors (nor any text output either, though the strokes 
are present).


> For now, it would be OK to edit the PostScript files and replace some 
> text with another.

You could rename the fonts to use ones which are present on your system.

> Another option would be to install some fonts.  I have done this 
before 
> (so my wife could read Cyrillic text in Mozilla), but it is easy to 
> waste a lot of time mucking about with font installation.

Installing the fonts for Ghostscript's use is another way to make this 
work. You haven't actually said which version of Ghostscrit you are 
using, and you do say its old, so probably I can't offer much advice on 
this.

			Ken

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viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 19:47 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-25 15:37 -0500
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 21:44 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-25 21:49 +0100
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-25 21:48 +0000
      Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 08:29 +0100
        Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 07:58 +0000
          Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 10:35 +0100
            Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 11:23 +0000
              Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 m.kraemer@gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) - 2011-04-26 11:36 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-25 19:51 -0400
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-04-26 07:56 +0000
  Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JOUKJ <joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-26 08:42 +0200
    Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 08:33 +0100
      Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 JOUKJ <joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-26 09:58 +0200

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