[gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font

[gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font

[José Romildo Malaquias]

Hello.

Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.


$ ps2pdf a.ps 
Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
Operand stack:
   Times-Italic@0   --nostringval--   Times-Italic
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1878   1   3   %oparray_pop   1877   1   3   %oparray_pop   1861   1   3   %oparray_pop   1755   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   1836   3   4   %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:78/200(L)--   --dict:59/120(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
Current file position is 5611
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


Any clues?

Romildo

Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font

[Daniel Wagener]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:42:26 -0300
José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
> message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.
> 
> 
> $ ps2pdf a.ps 
> Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
> Operand stack:
>    Times-Italic@0   --nostringval--   Times-Italic
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1878   1   3   %oparray_pop   1877   1   3   %oparray_pop   1861   1   3   %oparray_pop   1755   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   1836   3   4   %oparray_pop
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:78/200(L)--   --dict:59/120(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
> Current file position is 5611
> GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Romildo
> 

Have had such stuff for quite some time…
unfortunately I did not write that down… :(

I remember it was some problem with font loading in X, somehow the order mattered, had to edit xorg.conf and .xinitrc to get it all right

Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font

[Joseph]

On 09/27/12 22:42, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
>Hello.
>
>Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
>message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.
>
>
>$ ps2pdf a.ps
>Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
>Operand stack:
>   Times-Italic@0   --nostringval--   Times-Italic
>Execution stack:
>   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1878   1   3   %oparray_pop   1877   1   3   %oparray_pop   1861   1   3   %oparray_pop   1755   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   1836   3   4   %oparray_pop
>Dictionary stack:
>   --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:78/200(L)--   --dict:59/120(L)--
>Current allocation mode is local
>Last OS error: No such file or directory
>Current file position is 5611
>GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
>
>Any clues?
>
>Romildo

I had a problem in the past xpdf wasn't able to find the correct fonts, see topic in:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-907720-highlight-fonts.html

-- 
Joseph

[gentoo-user] Re: ghostscript fails to find Helvetica font

[José Romildo Malaquias]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42:26PM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error
> message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica.
> 
> 
> $ ps2pdf a.ps 
> Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
> Operand stack:
>    Times-Italic@0   --nostringval--   Times-Italic
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1878   1   3   %oparray_pop   1877   1   3   %oparray_pop   1861   1   3   %oparray_pop   1755   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   1836   3   4   %oparray_pop
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:78/200(L)--   --dict:59/120(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
> Current file position is 5611
> GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I have filled a bug report:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436500

Romildo