ghostscript (was: ghostscript and LyX-CJK)

hisha <[email protected]> :

> Next, ghostview. I took an example file, like 
> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/vertical-orizontal-test.ps
> I verified that I can open this in my old SUSE8.2 and see
> all characters correctly.
> Next, I open it with gs as normal user in 9.3, from bash.
> The result are Mojibake and the messages:
> ---
> gs vertical-horizontal-test.ps
> ESP Ghostscript 8.15 (2004-09-22)
> Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights
> reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING
> for details.
> Scanning /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ for fonts... 12 files,
> 12 scanned, 0 new fonts.
> Scanning /usr/share/fonts/ for fonts... 2 files, 2
> scanned, 0 new fonts.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file
> /home/hisha/Resource/Font/Ryumin-Light-UniJIS-UTF8-V.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file
> Ryumin-Light-UniJIS-UTF8-V.

'/home/hisha' is weird!

I found that the problem is caused by the environment
variable GS_LIB. Apparently KDE sets it to

   GS_LIB=/home/hisha/.fonts

If you unset this variable, ghostscript works again. 

Therefore the problem doesn't happen if you don't use KDE and it also
disappears after 'su -' because then you do not have GS_LIB in the
environment anymore.

As a temporary workaround, you can add

   unset GS_LIB

to your ~/.profile.

I'll check now out why KDE sets this environment variable.

-- 
Mike FABIAN   <[email protected]>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian



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