On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 00:29:54 +0200, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote:

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:52 PM, j. van den hoff wrote:
not sure whether this qualifies for a ticket: after recent (~ 2 days ago) `port upgrade outdated' postscript generation via `ghostscript' fails for me
with an error

Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
Operand stack:
   Times-Roman@0   --nostringval--   Times-Roman
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval
p 1966 1 3 %oparray_pop 1950 1 3 %oparray_pop 1836 1 3
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   1919   3   4   %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1200/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:79/200(L)--
--dict:5
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: Invalid argument
Current file position is 5762
GPL Ghostscript 9.16: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


apparently when looking for basic fonts such as times roman. so it seems to
longer be able to locate any fonts. unfortunately I don't know anything
specific of ghostscript (just using it via `groff' to generate some
postscript/pdf output).

this happens with  ghostscript @9.16_1+x11. if I deactivate this one and
activate `ghostscript @9.10_2+x11' (which I luckily still had available)
everything goes back to normal.

no idea what is going on here. any help appreciated. if I can provide
further information I'll be glad to do this.

seen with macos 10.10.5 and MacPorts 2.3.3


thanks for your reply.

It looks suspiciously similar to
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42395, even though it could be
different enough to happen for to a different reason. That ticket was
opened while 9.10 was still the latest version.

You could either open a new ticket or add more information to the
existing one, possibly together with some "minimal" (or at least
relatively small) GS file (or description of how you got that file)
that triggers the error, to make it easier for others to reproduce the
problem.

I think I will do that (new ticket) since as mentioned when switching from 9.16 back to 9.10 behaviour goes back to normal in my case.


(In any case I have no clue where the fonts are.)

just a remark: I looked at https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42395 and noted the comments regarding absence of "Times related" fonts in /opt/local/share/ghostscript/9.10/Resource/Font/. I believe this is a misconception: AFAIK, ghostscript is using the (free) Nimbus font family (Mon, RomNo9, San) as drop in replacement for Courier, Times, Helvetica, respectively, so I would think the required fonts are actually there ... not that this helps to understand what's going on.

joerg


Mojca


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