Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!news.imp.ch!newsfeed.tiscali.ch!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Multivax C&R Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e24b50.dip0.t-ipconnect.de X-Trace: online.de 1303768127 30386 217.226.75.80 (25 Apr 2011 21:48:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.vms:2380 comp.lang.postscript:139 In article , ken writes: > > PostScript files created by the Fortran program. > > 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. Right. > 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. It might be that it is not 100% correct PostScript. It had always worked, so I was in the "don't change a running system" category. > 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). On the sample I included? I don't think there is any text in it; it was just a quick plot to check if everything was working. > > 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. Is there an easy way to find this out? As I said, it is unclear (at least to me) which application looks where to find what fonts? > 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. GS == "$DISK$SOFT:[GHOST.GS4_03]GS.EXE" As I said, quite ancient.