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drrossum

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 83

[SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

Hi,

is anyone seeing ghostscript errors like

GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

after freetype2 went to version 2.4.9-1 two days ago?

I wonder if this is a ghostscript bug, because then I would file a report upstream.  I can't seem to find anything related upstream.
Or could this be a freetype2 bug?

Best,
Daan

Last edited by drrossum (2012-03-29 21:16:07)

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drrossum

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

a quick update:
just installed ghostscript-svn from AUR and the problem is solved.  So no need to report bugs upstream.

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Leonid.I

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From: Aethyr

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 999

Re: [SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

Confirmed. Opening a ps file with gs/evince yields this:

Loading StandardSymL font from /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font/StandardSymL... GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
Can't render Font StandardSymL with FAPI, will do with native GS renderer.
3438568 2024844 4479360 3173882 1 done.
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
Can't render Font Symbol with FAPI, will do with native GS renderer.
Can't render Font Symbol-Oblique ( aliased from Symbol ) with FAPI, will do with native GS renderer.
Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font/NimbusSanL-Regu... GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
Can't render Font NimbusSanL-Regu with FAPI, will do with native GS renderer.
3446984 2081251 4539912 3244170 1 done.
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
Can't render Font Helvetica with FAPI, will do with native GS renderer.

Seems harmless though...

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oinil

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Registered: 2012-03-19

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

same error found when using the "dvipdf" commd.

dvipdf main.dvi
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

Hi,

is anyone seeing ghostscript errors like

GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

after freetype2 went to version 2.4.9-1 two days ago?

I wonder if this is a ghostscript bug, because then I would file a report upstream.  I can't seem to find anything related upstream.
Or could this be a freetype2 bug?

Best,
Daan

lomov_vl

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From: Russia, Irkutsk

Registered: 2010-01-20

Posts: 34

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Re: [SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

a quick update:
just installed ghostscript-svn from AUR and the problem is solved.  So no need to report bugs upstream.

No, you just hide the problem. ghostscript now uses git. If you use 'ghostscript-svn' from AUR it means that ghostscript uses freetype2 shipped with source but not system one.

I'm using ghostscript compiled from git repo and I see that message. I don't know that cause it is it one ghostscript or freetype side. I'll make bug report lately.

timsears

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Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

I was getting a similar error using 'convert somefile.ps somefile.pdf'. I installed the ghostscript-svn package suggested, but no dice. Same error.

ratm_aur

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Registered: 2012-03-29

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

it looks like it was the freetype2 upgrade that screwed up things with ghostscript.

This issue has been solved upstream and there is a bug open in the Arch Linux bug tracker (bug #29034) to ship a patched version of freetype2 2.4.9

Meanwhile, installing freetype2-cleartype from the AUR actually downgrades freetype to v2.4.8, which also fixes the issue.

drrossum

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

Yes, downgrading freetype2 to 2.4.8 works for me too.

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ratm_aur

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Registered: 2012-03-29

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Re: [SOLVED] ghostscript errors after freetype2 upgrade

just for the record, the fix seems to have been packaged in freetype2-2.4.9-2