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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:54:54 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: [9fans] postscript printer trouble
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i don't know if this is related to recent postscript
printer troubles, but i have no problems talking to
the local printer.  the problem is font support.
to support fonts, gs is run to convert to a postscript
bitmap.  unfortunately, gs isn't up to this task:

; bind /n/sources/plan9/386/bin/gs /bin/gs # make sure its not me
; pdf2ps upasexp.pdf /tmp/x.ps
Error: /syntaxerror in -file-
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   916   6921   40   78   --nostringval--
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   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1122/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:72/200(L)--   --dict:64/80(ro)(L)--   --dict:37/197(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 20
Current file position is 53619
AFPL Ghostscript 8.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

- erik