From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 10:10:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06277 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:10:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.dnai.com (mercury.dnai.com [207.181.194.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06265 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kmarx@bigshed.com) Received: from bigshed.com (dnai-207-181-236-34.dialup.dnai.com [207.181.236.34]) by mercury.dnai.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA00143; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <361267A5.2B7B1637@bigshed.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:17:25 -0700 From: Ken Marx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ken Marx Subject: truetype fonts w/ ghostscript problems? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm seeing that some ttf fonts have problems when running with ghostscript5.10 on freeBSD 2.2.6. (I'm using xfstt099 as my trueType font server.) Many fonts work fine. Some botch badly. Here's an example of what I'm seeing with, say, times.ttf (Times New Roman Regular:Version 2, Monotype Corporation plc/Type Solutions Inc. 1990-1992): ---------------------------- % gs prfont.ps Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23) Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 1945208 578017 1300092 13643 0 done. GS>/times DoFont Loading times font from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/times.ttf... Error: /rangecheck in --string-- Operand stack: F times Font times 18687 times --nostringval-- times (/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/times.ttf) false sfnts --nostringval-- (\000\001\000\000\000\023\001\000\000\004\0000LTSH\200\037\347\352\000\000\001<\000\0 ...... -------------------------- I've tried sending mail to Dave Bodenstab (imdave@synet.net), who wrote a freebsd tutorial for font stuff (www.pt.freebsd.org/tutorials/fonts/fonts.html). But the mail bounced. Thanks in advance for any help, k. -- Ken Marx. We cannot possibly do our job unless we attempt to stand pat and re-engineer the process on the overarching goals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message