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Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2

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In article <MPG.281fee7aa8450277989832@usenet.plus.net>, ken
<ken@spamcop.net> 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.

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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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