Re: Output from Attempted install for Epson 777

[RBE <rbe@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday 12 September 2001 08:10, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:22:23AM -0500, RBE wrote:
> > I hope this perf.log output helps someone find the error.
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > Wed Sep 12 02:05:03 CDT 2001
> > stp_escp2-777 default default
> > Time for ghostscript:
> > Error: /invalidfont in findfont
>
> I'm not a gs expert, but ....
> Might it be the case, that you forgot to install the gs fonts ?
> There are some other tar.gz files, that need to be unpacked and
> installed in the place which is compiled into gs ...
> There is also a possibility to set an envirenment to enhance the
> compiled in search path for fonts ...
>
> What happens if you try to display the example Postscript
> documents that are bundeled with the gs sources ?
>
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    1455 19 Aug 14:22 alphabet.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   58543 19 Aug 14:22 cheq.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    2932 19 Aug 14:22 chess.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    1879 19 Aug 14:22 colorcir.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  137190 19 Aug 14:22 doretree.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   10520 19 Aug 14:22 escher.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   25499 19 Aug 14:22 golfer.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    1529 19 Aug 14:22 grayalph.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    3020 19 Aug 14:22 ridt91.eps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    2071 19 Aug 14:22 snowflak.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   78519 19 Aug 14:22 tiger.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   13092 19 Aug 14:22 vasarely.ps
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    2616 19 Aug 14:22 waterfal.ps
>
> You can use either gs directly to display it or use
> ghostview or gv as frontend.
>
> If you get runtime errors when calling gs, ghostview or gv with
> the example ghostscript documents or with _your_ text file (which
> might contain unknown / strange fonts), then we can perhaps better
> sort out, where the real source of the failure is ...
>
> > Operand stack:
> >    f1   (Times-Roman)   (Times-Roman)   Font   (Times-Roman)  
> > 345744 (Times-Roman)   --nostringval--   Courier  
> > NimbusMonL-Regu (NimbusMonL-Regu)   NimbusMonL-Regu  
> > (NimbusMonL-Regu)
>
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ???

Got it!  Moved the fonts from 6.01/fonts to 6.51/lib and it worked 
perfectly for the test.  Now to see if it will work otherwise.  Thank 
you all!

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