| Robert Black Eagle on Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:42:20 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: Output from Attempted install for Epson 777 |
At 08:41 AM 9/12/01 -0500, Andreas Klemm wrote: >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! Okay. Now I try to print from KDE. My output is pure Postscript code -- pages of it for a half-page document. I remember fixing this many years ago with another printer, but can find nothing on it in the Apsfilter documentation nor in the Linux Printing HOWTO. Printcap looks okay. Does anyone have a suggestion? RBE