Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2

From	ken <ken@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.vms, comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2
Date	2011-04-26 08:33 +0100
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In article <4DB66958.5080506@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl>, 
joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl says...

> I can reproduce this error with OpenVMS 8.4 and gs ( SVN PRE-RELEASE 
> 8.56 (2006-05-20)) and gv 358. The problem is the ghostview program
> If I run your postcript code just using "gs test.ps" It just draws
> the squares. But using "gv test.ps" the window with your error pops-up.

All versions of GhostView use Ghostscript to render the PostScritp file 
to a bitmap. If you are getting different behaviour between GS and GV 
then either GV is not using the same Ghostscript executable as the one 
you tested, or there are command line parameters making a difference.

Recent versions of all PostScript interpreters will replace missing 
fonts with a known substitute, so you should not get an error just 
because a font is missing. Recent versions of Ghostscript will do some 
primitive matching to try and get a reasonable replacement.

So in this case I would suggest that GV is using a different, probably 
earlier, version of Ghostscript.


			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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