hi didier, thanks for the quick reply.
> There is a duplicate of this file because of the cvs merge between GNU > and GPL versions, sorry for that, the "lib" directory is a little bit > populated with some old files. > > Can you try to remove the "lib/gs_lev2.ps" from your installation, the > good file is in "Resource/init/gs_lev2.ps" > after removing lib/gs_lev2.ps, gs now reads Resource/Init/gs_lev2.ps, but I'm getting another error: **#> GS_LIB=/tmp/gs-broken/usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.71/lib:/tmp/gs-broken/usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.71/Resource/Init strace -o /tmp/gs.strace /tmp/gs-broken/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf 000-root.ps While reading gs_lev2.ps: Error: /undefined in --get-- Operand stack: (gs_lev2.ps) --dict:770/1123(G)-- colorspacedict Execution stack: %interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:770/1123(G)-- --dict:63/200(L)-- --dict:770/1123(G)-- --dict:136/251(G)-- Current file position is 23920 Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninstallpagedevice Operand stack: gs_lev2.ps --nostringval-- colorspacedict ###> hope this helps you. ciao gabriele -- Gabriele Balducci - Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche - Via L. Giorgieri 1 I-34127 TRIESTE tel: I-040-5583957 fax: I-040-5583903 e-mail: baldu...@units.it Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html