Comment 23 for bug 321932

No, after
apt-get remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer
... still prints blank pages. I must always force rasterize in order to get anything.

--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: Till Kamppeter <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 321932] Re: ghostscript stop rendering with font errors
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 3:42 AM
> Can everyone uninstall
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer using
>
> sudo apt-get remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> This should remove the MS fonts. Please check whether the
> Ghostscript
> font problems go away then.
>
> The font files of the MS fonts are in
>
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/
>
> See
>
> /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.hints
>
> The pre-uninstall script of ttf-mscorefonts-installer is
> supposed to
> remove the MS fonts. Here is what it does for the case of
> problems, for
> manual clean-up:
>
> defoma-font purge-all
> /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.hints
> cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts && \
> rm -f `cat
> /var/lib/msttcorefonts/ms-fonts`
> rm -f '/usr/share/doc/msttcorefonts/READ_ME!.gz'
> rm -f
> '/usr/share/doc/ttf-mscorefonts-installer/READ_ME!.gz'
> rm -r /var/lib/msttcorefonts/ms-fonts
> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts
>
>
> ** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed =>
> Incomplete
>
> --
> ghostscript stop rendering with font errors
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321932
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> Status in “defoma” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “ghostscript” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ghostscript
>
> GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.64 on ubuntu jaunty
> does'nt load anymore ps files.
>
> ghostscript:
> Installed: 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9377-0ubuntu1
> Candidate: 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9377-0ubuntu1
> Version table:
> *** 8.64.dfsg.1~svn9377-0ubuntu1 0
> 500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> ubuntu jaunty x86_64
> Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development
> branch)
> Release: 9.04
>
> evince and any other frontend that rely on gs for
> postscript rendering do not work anymore. No printing is
> possible on non postscript printers. launching the
> interpreter from terminal (for instance using the ps2pdf
> program) gives this stack:
>
> Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
> Operand stack:
> iso1dict fCourier --nostringval-- Courier
> Execution stack:
> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1862 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop 1739 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1820 4 5 %oparray_pop
> Dictionary stack:
> --dict:1151/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:70/200(L)-- --dict:59/200(L)-- --dict:0/8(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: 2
> Current file position is 16162
> GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.64: Unrecoverable error,
> exit code 1
>
> Input is simple ascii fortran source code transformed to ps
> using a2ps -o file.ps file.F
>
> gs 8.63 worked ok, 8.64 gives error and is unusable.
>
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