Re: ghostscript

Mike FABIAN <[email protected]> :

> 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.

I reported that as bug #91584 against KDE at

    http://bugzilla.novell.com

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



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