viewing postscript with kghostview, gv, ghostview broken/unreadable - hunge fonts, layout broken

From: Michael (kffilter-news_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: 29 Jun 2004 09:29:31 -0700

Hi!
opening a postscript file with kghostview, ghostview, or gv displays
huge fonts, rendering the page unreadable. Same goes for the CUPS
print preview and Open Office documents. I logon as a different user
 - same result. Starting kghostview on the command line doesn't print
any error messages in the terminal.

The thumbs display on the left hand side in kghostview look fine, but
the main window displays huge fonts as described above. Printing the
page works ok though. I reset the gs options in kghostview ... same
result.

The layout is distorted too...page size A4 portrait is set up, but the
page looks like landscape mode with the fonts expanded horizontally
all the way from the left edge to the right edge.

Opening the ps-file directly with gs, displays the file correctly...

What could the problem be? Could any of the font directories/fonts.dir
files be broken? Any log-files which might give a hint?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks alot in advance and have a great day,
Mike

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