Re: cannot print %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Michael Loßin wrote:
> On 13-Jan-02 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:44:20AM +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >> > I am running the apsfilter-7.2.0 port for 4.5-RC FreeBSD 4.5-RC .
> >> > I can neither print nor open the ps files produced by a
> >> > mathmatics application called mupad. I will receive messages like
> >> > this:
> >> >                      ---------------------
> >> > Error: /undefined in 8,00
> >> > Operand stack:
> >>
> >> What happens when using the ghostscript-afpl port ?
> >> BTW, please update to apsfilter 7.2.1, which unbreaks apspreview(1).
> > I did both, but I still cannot print this file type - everything
> > else works fine.
> > Now the error-message of ggv is
> >
> >                        -----------------------
> > Error: /undefined in 8,00
>
> /(helvetica-Roman) findfont 8,00 scalefont setfont
>                              ^
> The PostScript file has a syntax error -- the application
> which creates it is buggy.
>
> It should probably be 8.00 or something...
>
> (So it's not an apsfilter error.)
You are right! This really is a strange thing. I unset my
enviroment variable LANG from German to the English default and
now the ps file contains dots instead of commas. Everything works
fine now.

Thanks a lot - though it wasn't an apsfilter error.

Regards,

Uli.

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