Subject: SUMMARY: Using Ghostscript with netatalk and Macintoshes
From: Mark Holm (markh@analogy.com)
Date: Thu Oct 08 1992 - 19:38:46 EDT
A while back I wrote:
> I downloaded Ghostscript V2.5, configured and loaded it onto my Sun to run
> a HP Paintjet that was just sitting there, and Viola! Instant Color
> Postscript printer. Good Stuff! Unfortunatly the Macintosh users noticed
> and now they want to use it also. So I went out and got netatalk Version
> 2.1.1. After configuring it I had something that showed up on the Mac's. I
> downloaded macps version 23 and fixed up the procset ... and tried to
> spool a job from the Mac. Job was accepted by the sun, placed in the spool
> directory, ... and disappeared from the face of the earth. I stoped the
> spooler and grabbed the data file. Both with and without the leading
> procset (applied via macps) gs produces the following error:
>
> > Initializing... done.
> > Loading Times-Roman font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ptmr.gsf...
> > 686416 669172 1 done.
> > Loading Courier font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/ncrr.gsf...
> > 746416 725458 1 done.
> > Loading Helvetica font from /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/phvr.gsf...
> > 766416 764096 1 done.
> > %%[|0|]%%Error: /invalidfont in -dicttype-
> > Operand stack:
> > 272 14.9998 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 null null 0 0 0 1 0
> > 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1.09596 0 -0 1.09596 32.8787 32.9746
> > /Helvetica -dicttype- /Helvetica
> > Execution stack:
> > %interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false
> > --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> > --nostringval-- false --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> > --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> > Dictionary stack:
> > 461/479 14/200 238/270 11/25 461/479 12/12
> > Ghostscript 2.5 (8/18/92)
> > Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
> > All rights reserved.
> > Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file LICENSE for details.
> > GS<38>
>
> What am I doing wrong and has anybody else set up something similar? Any
> pointers that anybody can give me on getting this going would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
My answer came back out of the ghostscript group who noted that the first
version of ghostscript to support truetype fonts was version 2.5.1 (note! I
had 2.5). Out to the netagain and downloaded a copy of ghostscript 2.5.2
and this fixed all my problems. I now have a cheap color postscript printer
available for next to nothing.
Thanks for the responses from:
And in case I didn't say it before, keep up the good work. This stuff is
great!
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