[9fans] postscript printer trouble

[9fans] postscript printer trouble

[erik quanstrom]

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

Re: [9fans] postscript printer trouble

[erik quanstrom]

On Mon Aug 31 12:58:29 EDT 2009, quanstro@coraid.com wrote:
> 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

using gs 7.04 from the dump works perfectly.
bummer!

- erik