Well, my fault as usual...
I didn't have an environment variable setup to point to the 'type1'
fonts.
It looks like the old gs version probably had a hard coding for the font
path, but when I upgraded the fonts were put somewhere else.
thanks,
John Strumila
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Strumila, John
> Sent: Monday, 19 February 2001 11:49 AM
> To: R help
> Subject: ghostscript errors
>
>
> gday R friends,
>
> Since I had random errors with ghostscript 6.01 I thought I'd
> upgrade. After upgrading to gs6.5 I've had problems.
> Originally, gs failed complaining about lack of "__sysconf"
> in glibc2.2 so I upgraded glibc. Now I get this. Note that it
> used to work with gs6.01.
>
> I realise this is probably a ghostscript problem but you never know...
>
> thanks,
> John Strumila
>
> > plot(hc, hang=-1)
> Error: /invalidfont in findfont
> Operand stack:
> Helvetica Font Helvetica 236274 Helvetica --nostringval--
> Courier NimbusMonL-Regu (NimbusMonL-Regu) NimbusMonL-Regu
> (NimbusMonL-Regu) NimbusMonL-Regu
> 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 .runexec2 --nostringval--
> --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
> --nostringval-- 1 3 %oparray_pop 2 3 %oparray_pop
> --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 5 4
> %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> 5 -1 1 --nostringval-- %for_neg_int_continue --nostringval--
> --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
> --dict:988/1476(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:90/200(L)--
> --dict:17/17(ro)(G)-- --dict:988/1476(ro)(G)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: 2
> AFPL Ghostscript 6.50: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> version
> _
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch i686
> os linux-gnu
> system i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major 1
> minor 1.0
> year 2000
> month June
> day 15
> language R
> >
>
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