Re: ghostscript

Mike FABIAN <[email protected]> :

> hisha <[email protected]> :
>
>>> > 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
>>
>> Yahari, that was the clincher. I guess that this
>> already does it for all requirements.
>> Thank you so much!
>> Teached me a lesson: Always know your environment
>> variables :)
>
> Well, I don't think this is your fault. There is a bug somewhere,
> probably in KDE and maybe in Ghostscript as well. KDE should probably
> not set that variable.  And even if it is set to
> GS_LIB=/home/hisha/.fonts, I think Ghostscript should still work,
> there seems to be a bug in Ghostscript as well.

Werner Fink fixed the bug in Ghostscript.

Updated ghostscript packages are available in 

    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/9.3/

With these packages, Ghostscript works for Japanese even
if the environment variable GS_LIB is set:

* Tue Jun 21 2005 - [email protected]

- Do not check for the first directory in LIBPATH for Resources
  but for the first occurance of CMap (bug #91584)

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



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