cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt) (07/20/90)
I just got Ghostscript version 1.4beta3 ( the free ****Script interpreter from FSF ) working on a Sequent Symmetry with X11R4 To my surprise I found it could deal with the dreaded output from dvips (version 4.0 (C) 1987-9 Radical Eye Software) and allows you to preview (slowly) LaTeX documents with embedded ****Script figures before sending them to the printer. However I could not get it to deal with dvips output which came from document using the "psfont.sty" mechanism to use ****Script fonts. It only works when the Computer Modern fonts are used and the font definition is downloaded to the printer. It throws up this :- Loading font file tim_b.gsf... done. Error: /undefined in /get ostack: --nostringval-- 0 Gamma 1 Delta 2 Theta 3 Lambda 4 Xi 5 Pi 6 Sigma 7 U psilon 8 Phi 9 Psi 10 Omega 12 fi 13 fl 16 dotlessi 18 grave 19 acute 20 caron 2 1 breve 22 macron 23 ring 24 cedilla 25 germandbls 26 ae 27 oe 28 oslash 29 AE 3 0 OE 31 Oslash 34 quotedblright 60 exclamdown 62 questiondown 92 quotedblleft 94 circumflex 95 dotaccent 123 endash 124 emdash 125 quotedbl 127 dieresis dieresi s --nostringval-- CharStrings but unfortunately my knowledge of ****Script errors is rudimentary/missing. Has anyone else seen this problem or know waht the solution might be? cheers, gerry -- gerry pratt - workstation support - university of keele email: cca13@uk.ac.keele.seq1 * tel: 0782 621111 x 3290
rich@Rice.edu (Carey Richard Murphey) (07/23/90)
Gerry Pratt writes:
I just got Ghostscript version 1.4beta3 ( the free ****Script interpreter from
FSF ) working on a Sequent Symmetry with X11R4
[.. and finds a bug ..]
Loading font file tim_b.gsf... done.
Error: /undefined in /get
This could be a bug in the tex.ps prolog file which is part of dvips,
or it could be merely a problem of configuring the mapping of tex font
names to builtin font names.
I've been beta testing GS 1.4beta3. It will preview latex documents
set in CM fonts for the text and builtin fonts for included EPS
figures. In fact, you can set up dvips to generate the 72 dpi fonts
on the fly, and they are legible in the ghostscript window.
Being able to preview included postscript figures and CM fonts is a
big win for ghostscript. No other free software will do this. I hope
it encourages more support for the ghostscript project.
Anybody out there want to help Peter? We've got a great reason here
to get the project going.
Rich
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Rich@Rice.edu