From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 20:40:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D6437B401 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spam2.snu.ac.kr (spam2.snu.ac.kr [147.46.10.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3337A43F75 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:40:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@snu.ac.kr) Received: (snipe 23068 invoked by alias); 14 Jul 2003 03:52:06 -0000 Received: from lahaye@snu.ac.kr with Spamsniper2.0 (Processed in 0.014059 secs); Received: from unknown (HELO sis1.snu.ac.kr) (147.46.10.36) by 0 with SMTP; 14 Jul 2003 03:52:06 -0000 X-RCPTTO: ports@FreeBSD.org,stacey@vickiandstacey.com, Received: from snu.ac.kr ([147.46.44.183]) by sis1.snu.ac.kr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6E3bYmx085190; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:37:35 +0900 Message-ID: <3F122614.2050405@snu.ac.kr> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:40:04 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye Organization: Seoul National University - South Korea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ko-kr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stacey@vickiandstacey.com References: <3F0F78C0.8090607@snu.ac.kr> <1058006696.64468.0.camel@localhost> <3F10D07D.5000506@snu.ac.kr> <1058093565.64468.20.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1058093565.64468.20.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: ghostscript-gnu-7.07 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:40:08 -0000 Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 04:22, Rob Lahaye wrote: > >>Stacey Roberts wrote: >> >>> >>>I was getting this failure last night as well, but has just this minute >>>worked for me as part of portupgrading Gnome-2. >>> >>>Have a go. >> >>Nope, still same problems occur. > > > Shame, try manually pulling down the file from the suggested ftp site > into /usr/ports/distfiles, then retry. That worked, but only by also the modifying the MD5 sum of "Samsung-SmartGDI-all-GS.tar.gz" in distfiles. This is not a clean port upgrade. Please fix. By the way: I suppose this upgrade does not address the printer problem as arose from a discussion between me and Glenn Johnson: ----------------------- Subject: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomes fixed width > Glenn Johnson wrote: > >>> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:59:10PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: >> >>>> Since I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (with cups-1.1.18), printing >>>> has a problem with variable width fonts. Variable width fonts are >>>> printed out as fixed width fonts; so text looks ugly and runs over >>>> the lines. >> >>> Are you using an "up-to-date" version of ghostscript? If so, that >>> is the problem. The last version of ghostscript that does not >>> exhibit this problem is ghostscript-gnu-7.05_5. I am not sure >>> about the version number of ghostscript-afpl but recent versions >>> exhibit this problem. >> >> Yes I was up-to-date with ghostscript and that indeed was the problem. >> I forced the deinstall of my ghostscript-gnu-7.07, and installed >> instead from the packages, version 7.05_4. >> And my printing problem has gone now! Thanks. >> >> Is the origin of the problem located? Will it be fixed in the next >> release of ghostscript-gnu? Has this problem been reported to the >> ghostscript-gnu developer community? > > I am not sure but I believe the problem is specific to the FreeBSD > ports. I hope to have some time this weekend to dig into it a bit. ----------------------- Regards, Rob.