[tex-live] TL 2007 problems: MarVoSym and dviout.exe woes

[Harald Koenig]

On Oct 05, Harald Koenig wrote:

> > from ghostscript, though I never heard ghostscript beeping.  But a
> > terminal with full ASCII support should beep if you send ^G (BELL) to
> > it, which can happen if you send a binary file to it.  If your friend
> > installed ghostscript from the TeXLive-2007 CD/DVD, he certainly has
> > version 8.54 while you have version 8.15.  I suppose that he will get
> > the same result as you when he downgrades to version 8.15.
> 
> and tomorrow I can test some other ghostscript versions on Linux...

I tried the following versions of ghostscript, all on SUSE 10.1: 

   3.53   5.10   6.52   7.05   8.15   8.50   8.54   8.57

all those gs versions caused an error with the original marvosym.pfb
and none of them failed with the new marvosym.pfb...

so it doesn't look like a problem with new ghostscript versions,
at least not on Linux.


the command actually being tested will all local files was

	( echo 10.0 ; echo `seq 0 255` ) | gs-$version -dNODISPLAY -dNOGC -sSUBSTFONT=MarVoSym -q -- render.ps MarVoSym "(marvosym.pfb) brun" "" 600.00

(inspired by the exec() call in gsftopk with strace;) with "render.ps" from
TL2007 gsftopk/render.ps. 


Harald
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