Re: SUSE 9.3 & Ghostscript

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:01:20 +0100, Brian wrote:

Probably missing the obvious, but does anyone know why ghostscript won't
simply provide me with the gs> prompt when I run it at a bash shell prompt
as: gs
[snips]

Found the problem, but not specifically why it occurred (yet).

File /usr/share/ghostscript/8.15/lib/Fontmap references /etc/fonts/Fontmap
as:
(/etc/fonts/Fontmap) .runlibfile

The /etc/fonts/Fontmap file contains a list of the names & locations of
all fonts installed on the system - including those I added - and
commenting out the reference to this file restores normal gs operation.

Since I'd added the same batch of fonts to the two different SUSE 9.3
installations, and each showed the same gs failure, I assume that there is
something about a font name or font file contents which is upsetting gs as
it tries to start.

Presumably the worst thing now is that gs won't know about the
system's fonts or those I've installed - only its native standard
Postscript set - but I can live with that for the time being.


B.
--
Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.

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