Comment 4 for bug 321932

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Graziano (graziano-giuliani-gmail) wrote : Re: ghostscript stop rendering with font errors

Ok, let's start.

First, ghostsript revision has changed yesterday, so all output now is related to

ghostscript:
  Installed: 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9403-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9403-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9403-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

About Your questions.

First, I do remove all the files downloaded from gs site, leaving just the ones given by ubuntu package.

1)
$ gs -c 'loadallfonts quit'
GPL Ghostscript Release Candidate 8.64 (2009-01-26)
Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading Hershey-Greek-Simplex font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/hrgks.gsf... 3698408 1711784 5865336 4581274 1 done.
Loading Hershey-Gothic-Italian-Oblique font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/hritro.gsf... Loading Hershey-Gothic-Italian font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/hritr.pfa... 3698408 1772786 5885520 4591934 1 done.
3698408 1773515 5885520 4593591 1 done.
Loading Hershey-Gothic-English-SemiBold font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/hrgerd.gsf... Loading Hershey-Gothic-English font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/hrger.pfa... 3698408 1837575 5885520 4598995 1 done.
3698408 1838304 5905704 4604068 1 done.
Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font/TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic.
Can't find (or can't open) font file TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic.
Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font/TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic.
Can't find (or can't open) font file TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic.
Querying operating system for font files...
Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font/TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic.
Can't find (or can't open) font file TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic.
Didn't find this font on the system!
Unable to substitute for font.
Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
Operand stack:
   Times-BoldItalic
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --dict:357/512(G)-- --nostringval-- 121 %dict_continue --nostringval-- 1820 1 3 %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1147/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:73/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
GPL Ghostscript Release Candidate 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

2) defoma and gs fonts.
 ii defoma 0.11.10-0.2ubuntu1
 ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-3
 ii gsfonts-other 6.0-3.2ubuntu2
 ii gsfonts-x11 0.21

3) Differences in directories:

*) Init: cidfmap Fontmap Fontmap.gs
*) Font: lot of more fonts (have only Dingbats and StandardSymL)

Thanks.