On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:42:26 -0300 José Romildo Malaquias <j.romi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. > > Recently ghostscript stopped working on my ~amd64 system. The error > message indicates it cannot find basic fonts like Times and Helvetica. > > > $ ps2pdf a.ps > Error: /invalidfont in /findfont > Operand stack: > Times-Italic@0 --nostringval-- Times-Italic > Execution stack: > %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop > 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 > %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- 1836 3 4 %oparray_pop > Dictionary stack: > --dict:1169/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- > --dict:59/120(L)-- > Current allocation mode is local > Last OS error: No such file or directory > Current file position is 5611 > GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > > > Any clues? > > Romildo > Have had such stuff for quite some time… unfortunately I did not write that down… :( I remember it was some problem with font loading in X, somehow the order mattered, had to edit xorg.conf and .xinitrc to get it all right
