beech@ms.uky.edu (Wayne Beech) (02/06/91)
Hello, I recently ftp'd a copy of Fonts-1.0-free off of sonata.cc.purdue.edu and installed the fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts using the supplied Makefile. The fonts work/look great on the screen but when I go to print something that contains one of these fonts i get an alert panel with them message: PostScript error: %%[Error: invalidfont; Offending Command: show]%% Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? or does anyone else experience this problem? Thanks, Wayne -- ============================================================================= UUCP : ukma!beech BITNET: beech@ukma DOMAIN: beech@ms.uky.edu
matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) (02/06/91)
In article <1991Feb5.185207.23802@ms.uky.edu> beech@ms.uky.edu (Wayne Beech) writes: >Hello, >I recently ftp'd a copy of Fonts-1.0-free off of sonata.cc.purdue.edu and >installed the fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts using the supplied Makefile. The >fonts work/look great on the screen but when I go to print something that >contains one of these fonts i get an alert panel with them message: >PostScript error: %%[Error: invalidfont; Offending Command: show]%% >Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? or does anyone else >experience this problem? >Thanks, >Wayne One of the fonts, not sure which, does that. I de-installed a whole lot of 'em (after struggling for hours to figure out which font it was -- I am very dismayed that you can crash the window server so easily as to have a font in there (as a space) that doesn't exist any more) and it all works fine now. It might be Kallestar -- that doesn't come up on the screen very well for me. I since canned it. (note, it could be more than one) ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews@umdd (bitnet) ------ Remember, there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. - Frank Zappa
smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) (02/07/91)
References: <1991Feb5.185207.23802@ms.uky.edu> <7977@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: >In article <1991Feb5.185207.23802@ms.uky.edu> beech@ms.uky.edu (Wayne Beech) writes: >>Hello, >>I recently ftp'd a copy of Fonts-1.0-free off of sonata.cc.purdue.edu and >>installed the fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts using the supplied Makefile. The >>fonts work/look great on the screen but when I go to print something that >>contains one of these fonts i get an alert panel with them message: >>PostScript error: %%[Error: invalidfont; Offending Command: show]%% >>Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? or does anyone else >>experience this problem? >>Thanks, >>Wayne >One of the fonts, not sure which, does that. I de-installed a whole lot of >'em (after struggling for hours to figure out which font it was -- I am very >dismayed that you can crash the window server so easily as to have a font in >there (as a space) that doesn't exist any more) and it all works fine now. >It might be Kallestar -- that doesn't come up on the screen very well for me. >I since canned it. >(note, it could be more than one) This is strange. I'm running 2.0 ('40) on my cube, and have not had this problem. They all work fine. -Bill -- __________________Prof. William V. Smith____________________ EMail: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu or uunet!hamblin.math.byu.edu!smithw SMail: Math Dept. -- 314 TMCB; BYU; Provo, UT 84602 (USA) NeXTmail: smithw@mathnx.math.byu.edu Phone: +1 801 378 2061 FAX: +1 801 378 2800
smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) (02/07/91)
Well, I went looking through the fonts in Fonts-1.0-free and I discovered
that there was indeed a problem with one of them on my machine:
called BenjaminCaps. Could not find any problems with the others, but I
did not try all possible combinations or anything like that. Just deleted
this font from ~/Library/Fonts.
-Bill
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