Message: 13 From: Artemio <theman@...283...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:00:46 +0300 Subject: [Inkscape-devel] off-topic, but maybe related: ghostricpt got broken after installing inkscape-20040610

Hello everybody!

This may be off-topic, but maybe not. I didn't do anything to my system except for installing inkscape-20040610 yesterday.

I have been using my system (Mandrake Linux 10.0) for three months: viewing PS/PDF files, creating PS/PDF files - all with ESP Ghostcript 7.07 (that one with CUPS). But yesterday, suddenly, GS became broken.

So, everytime I try to view a PS or PDF file with KGhostView, Ghostview or any other viewer, and everytime I try to print to PS or PDF, I get an error message box from these applications, they show a gs command line and an error message: "Unrecoverable error: syntaxerror in token Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Zmachine sRB --nostringval--"

I don't have any GS_* variables defined except fot GS_LIB=/home/artemio.fonts

The weird thing is that when I say "gs" in the command line, I instantly get this:

ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-11-19) Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Unrecoverable error: syntaxerror in token Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Zmachine sRB --nostringval--

On my system, /usr/bin/gs is symlinked to /usr/bin/gs-common, and gs-common is an ELF executable, not a shell wrapper that adds some extra options.

Please excuse me if this is off-topic here, but I just don't know what to do...

Artemio.

--nostringval-- --nostringval-- Zmachine sRB --nostringval-- <<---

GS is complaining it can't find that font

1) something you are trying to print has that font embedded in the postscript stream or

2) your GS fontmaps are messed up.

3) your fontconfig cache is stale

Possible fixes:

1) as root fc-cache -fv - this refreshes the fontconfig cache

2) remove any and all freefont* rpms - Some of the ones shipped by Mandrake have some really busted fonts which have caused issues for Scribus.

3. Reinstall all the Ghostscript packages so the default fontmaps are restored.

Drop into #scribus if you need more help.

Cheers, Peter