CentOS - Jan 2018 - Gtkcdlabel + cdlabelgen on CentOS 7 ?

Hi,

I've been using the nifty little application Gtkcdlabel for making CD
and DVD covers since 2005, if I remember correctly. Later versions are
written in Python, and it's a graphical frontend to the cdlabelgen utility.

The application doesn't look very well maintained, since the 1.15
release dates back to 2011. Nevertheless, I've been successfully running
it on Slackware Linux until the latest 14.2 release.

I'm currently trying to install it on CentOS 7, and I'm only having a
partial success, with a showstopper. Here's what I could manage so far.

The 'cdlabelgen' command line utility is available on EPEL, so I
installed that.

I downloaded Gtkcdlabel on the project site:

http://gtkcdlabel.sourceforge.net/

The installation process takes you back 25 years, since it amounts to this:

# tar xvjf gtkcdlabel-1.15.tar.bz2 -C /

This installs the application in /usr/bin/gtkcdlabel.py along with a new
desktop entry (and the ugliest icon on the planet).

The application shows OK when running it, but PostScript file generation
fails. I launched it from a terminal by invoking gtkcdlabel.py, filled
out a few fields like Title and Subtitle and then clicked on Preview.
Normally this is supposed to launch the PDF viewer (/usr/bin/evince in
the default configuration). And it launches, except it gets stuck here,
since nothing is generated.

Under the hood, in my terminal, I get the following string of error
messages:

(libspectre) ghostscript reports: invalidfont -10
(libspectre) ghostscript reports: invalidfont -10
(libspectre) ghostscript reports: invalidfont -10
(libspectre) ghostscript reports: invalidfont -10
(libspectre) ghostscript reports: invalidfont -10

I checked, and ghostscript as well as ghostscript-fonts are installed.

Which leaves me clueless.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, since I've been using this
application for years on a daily basis.

Cheers,

Niki

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On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 18:11:52 +0100
Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> (libspectre) ghostscript reports: invalidfont -10
Since you say this worked before, can you inspect one of the pdf files that was
created when it was working and see what font(s) it's trying to use?

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Le 02/01/2018 ? 19:11, Frank Cox a ?crit :
> Since you say this worked before, can you inspect one of the pdf
> files that was created when it was working and see what font(s) it's
> trying to use?
Here's what I have:

--8<-------------------------------------------------------
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Pages: 1
%%EndComments
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica Helvetica-Bold
%%+ font Helvetica-BoldOblique Helvetica-Oblique Courier Courier-Bold
%
% This document included in .ps files generated by cdlabelgen
...
--8<-------------------------------------------------------

Cheers,

Niki

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Le 02/01/2018 ? 19:11, Frank Cox a ?crit :
> Since you say this worked before, can you inspect one of the pdf
> files that was created when it was working and see what font(s) it's
> trying to use?
I searched some more and I *think* I found a bit of valuable
information. The problem seems to come from the cdlabelgen backend. As
far as I can tell, it uses the /usr/share/cdlabelgen/template.ps file
(shipping with the cdlabelgen package) to produce a CD/DVD cover. But
the fonts are not available.

Now what?

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