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janwil

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From: Tartu, Estonia

Registered: 2003-08-15

Posts: 88

LaTeX/Prosper does not show fonts

Hi all,

I have a strange problem which I can't figure out whether it lies between the chair and the table or on the table.

Namely, I am usin Prosper to generate LaTeX slides. This morning previewing a produced PS-file gave the following error:

Error: /invalidfont in findfont
Operand stack:
   Fc   10   --nostringval--   165   16   --nostringval--   165   109   --nostringval--   149   165   83   149   99   2   --nostringval--   165   165   248   66   149   66   66   165   165   1   --nostringval--   165   165   1   --nostringval--   165   165   21   --nostringval--   198   28   --nostringval--   83   99   83   44   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   24   297.54   Helvetica   Font   Helvetica   531531   Helvetica   --nostringval--   Courier   (Courier)   Courier
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   47   4   %oparray_pop   48   4   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   51   5   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1049/1417(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:74/200(L)--   --dict:115/300(L)--   --dict:17/17(ro)(G)--   --dict:1049/1417(ro)(G)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

When previewing a DVI file there are no fonts displayed. At the same time producing ordinary LaTeX articles there is no problem.

Are there any PostScript related packages updated lately? Any changes in font configuration? Any PS-fonts moved to other place? Anything else that might be wrong?

Jan,
confused

sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

Posts: 2,975

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Re: LaTeX/Prosper does not show fonts

might be a good thing to file a bug for as well as posting here.

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janwil

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From: Tartu, Estonia

Registered: 2003-08-15

Posts: 88

Re: LaTeX/Prosper does not show fonts

might be a good thing to file a bug for as well as posting here.

Yes, sure, but before posting a formal bug report I wanted to be sure that it is not just me doing something silly. Has anyone experienced a similar problem?

Jan

andy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2002-10-11

Posts: 374

Re: LaTeX/Prosper does not show fonts

I just looked at a PS file produced with prosper and it looks ok.

But maybe this is beacuse it's not using any PS fonts ...

Things that come to mind :
did you recreate ls-lR when installing prosper ?
are you cleaning the temporary created font files ?
How do you use propser ? (I usually create PDF files with it).

This is just guess work.

What happens when you remove all .aux .dvi and produced .ps files and recreate everything again ?

janwil

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From: Tartu, Estonia

Registered: 2003-08-15

Posts: 88

Re: LaTeX/Prosper does not show fonts

Hi again,

I did some research and I guess prosper is not to be blamed here at all, this was a pure ghostscript issue. I reinstalled ghostscript and now everything works. I still do not know what exactly went wrong, so I probably won't submit a bug report as it will very probably become unreproducable anyway.

Jan