No, after
apt-get remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer
... still prints blank pages.  I must always force rasterize in order to get anything.


--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: Till Kamppeter <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 321932] Re: ghostscript stop rendering with font errors
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 3:42 AM
> Can everyone uninstall
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer using
> 
> sudo apt-get remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> 
> This should remove the MS fonts. Please check whether the
> Ghostscript
> font problems go away then.
> 
> The font files of the MS fonts are in
> 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
> 
> See
> 
> /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.hints
> 
> The pre-uninstall script of ttf-mscorefonts-installer is
> supposed to
> remove the MS fonts. Here is what it does for the case of
> problems, for
> manual clean-up:
> 
> defoma-font purge-all
> /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.hints
> cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts && \
>    rm -f `cat
> /var/lib/msttcorefonts/ms-fonts`
> rm -f '/usr/share/doc/msttcorefonts/READ_ME!.gz'
> rm -f
> '/usr/share/doc/ttf-mscorefonts-installer/READ_ME!.gz'
> rm -r /var/lib/msttcorefonts/ms-fonts
> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts
> 
> 
> ** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Confirmed =>
> Incomplete
> 
> -- 
> ghostscript stop rendering with font errors
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321932
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> 
> Status in “defoma” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “ghostscript” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> 
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ghostscript
> 
> GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.64 on ubuntu jaunty
> does'nt load anymore ps files.
> 
> ghostscript:
>   Installed: 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9377-0ubuntu1
>   Candidate: 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9377-0ubuntu1
>   Version table:
>  *** 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9377-0ubuntu1 0
>         500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> ubuntu jaunty x86_64
> Description:    Ubuntu jaunty (development
> branch)
> Release:    9.04
> 
> evince and any other frontend that rely on gs for
> postscript rendering do not work anymore. No printing is
> possible on non postscript printers. launching the
> interpreter from terminal (for instance using the ps2pdf
> program) gives this stack:
> 
> Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
> Operand stack:
>    iso1dict   fCourier   --nostringval--   Courier
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1862   1   3   %oparray_pop   1861   1   3   %oparray_pop   1845   1   3   %oparray_pop   1739   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   1820   4   5   %oparray_pop
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1151/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--   --dict:59/200(L)--   --dict:0/8(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: 2
> Current file position is 16162
> GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.64: Unrecoverable error,
> exit code 1
> 
> Input is simple ascii fortran source code transformed to ps
> using a2ps -o file.ps file.F
> 
> gs 8.63 worked ok, 8.64 gives error and is unusable.
> 
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