HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rstanton@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Subject: Re: Some problem in using MSDOS gs2.4: gs.exe and gs386.exe
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C.Berkeley
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:59:36 GMT

In article <9204102314.1.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:

>> 4. The gs386.exe (plus dos4gw.exe) was not functioned at all.  
>>    The error message was: (after I execute gs386 myfile.ps)
>> 
>>    DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-Time Version 1.3
>>    Copyright ....
>>    DOS/4GW Fatal error: Loader failed --LINEXE_LOADER
>> 

>Several other people have reported this error.  I do not know what it
>means.  I cannot find it in the Watcom documentation.  I will report
>it to Watcom Technical Support and post the reply here.

I got this error running GS386 under QEMM-386 with no specified EXTENDED
memory. Once I altered my CONFIG.SYS to exclude, say, 1Mb of extended
memory from being controlled by QEMM, GS386 worked fine.

I'd find it useful if GS386 could work with, say, XMS memory instead of plain
extended memory.

Richard Stanton

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: tim@cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen)
Subject: Re: Problems with ghostview1.1 and Openwin2.0
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:11:24 GMT

brianj@skat.usc.edu (Brian Jones) writes:
>I was wondering if anybody was having problems with ghostview-1.1 using
>openwindows 2.0?  It works fine and dandy the first time I use it, but
>when I exit and try and go into it again, it gets flakey.  Sometimes, it
>will cause the window server to crash, other times it will just give me
>an error saying: "Error:  SmeBSB Object: Left Bitmap of entry "0" is not
>one bit deep."  I have no idea what that means.

>Ghostscirpt 2.4 works fine, and I have it compiled using both X11 and sunview.
>Ghostview gives me no trouble in Openwindows 3.0 or in X11R4 or X11R5,  Just
>Openwindows 2.0.  I was wondering if anybody else has come across this, or 
>if I am just a unique case?

You have just asked frequently asked question number 4, found in the README
file of the ghostview distribution:

    4.  When I start ghostview, sometimes I get this error:
        "Error: SmeBSB Object: Left Bitmap of entry  "0" is not one bit deep.."
        Other times it works.  What is going wrong?

        The only time this problem occurs is when an OpenWindows X server
        is the display.  It is likely a server problem.  I have placed a
        work around in ghostview that turns off all use of bitmaps.  The
        -openwindows option enables this work around.  However, with it
        enabled the current magstep, orientation, and media cannot be
        marked in the popup menus.

Hope this helps,  ...Tim
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: gregw@highland.oz.AU (Greg Wilkins)
Subject: epson fonts problem
Reply-To: gregw@highland.oz.au
Organization: Highland Logic
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 16:00:42 GMT

I am having a few problems with ghostscript going to a epson compatible
printer (Nec pinwriter p7).  But firstly let me say this is wonderful
free software, and I don't mean to complain, I only want to know if
a fix is on its way or if this is a known problem.

1) Positioning and sizing of fonts is not correct.  Justified text
   comes out unjustified (on the right) and some letters overprint
   occassionally ( T with a following o is commonly a victim).

2) Sometimes the ghostscript goes into sulk mode for the first 
   half of each page and replaces every character with an irregular
   block that would completely cover the character.  When it leaves
   this mode (randomly?) it sometimes does so midway through a line.
   Ie the bottom few raster lines of each character is OK.



Any ideas,comments,fixes,workarounds?   please email as we do
not get this group onto our machine (I hope we send it out???)

Thanks in advance

Greg Wilkins ( Software Manager ) @ Highland Logic 
       Snail : Level 2, 29 Albany St, St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia
       Email : gregw@highland.oz.au
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: Incorrect colormap on Suns
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 22:05:30 GMT

>A couple of posts have mentioned problems with incorrect colormaps on Suns.

I haven't seen those, but I've seen colormap problems.

>I've determined that the problem only occurs when running either the
>OpenWindows2 or the OpenWindows3 server.

I'm using X11R5pl8 (twm) on a 4/75 with a GX running 4.1.1.

>The basic problem is that either the colormap or its interpretation is
>incorrect.  A simple test to detect the probem is to run "gs colorcir.ps" and
>see if the output is correct.

When I do so, everything *looks* okay.

>behaves properly).  It also appears that you get a different colormap every
>time you restart the X11 server.

gs looks fine to me, but I think it's allocating the colormap cells as read-
only and not deallocating them.  I can fire up gs and watch it allocate a
bunch of colormap cells (thanks to xshowcmap), then exit it and fire up
xv or xloadimage.  Nothing seems able to reallocate those cells.

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: defert@cernvax.cern.ch (Philippe Defert)
Subject: Re: Does gs2.4 work on your GrayScale display ? (was Re: gs2.4 does not
 work on 24 bit X display?)
Organization: CERN, European Research Center for Particle Physics
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 08:13:45 GMT

>>>>> On 5 Apr 92 15:17:35 GMT, jhd@irfu.SE (Jan D.) said:

Jan> I had exactly the same
Jan> experience with my 8-bit GrayScale monitor on a HP Apollo
Jan> 9000/720. The screen goes all black. It seems as ALL grayscales
Jan> in the colormap are black.


Has anyone a fix for this ?

Thanks.
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: haeb@demon.co.UK (Harry Broomhall)
Subject: Re: ghostscript does not accept path like ...
Organization: Demon Systems Limited
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:43:51 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.051124.4165@acsu.buffalo.edu> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (XiaoFei Wang) writes:
>gs c:\mike\data\foo.ps 
>
  You need to pretend that you are using a Unix machine.
Try  gs c:/mike/data/foo.ps   and you will find it will work.

  Regards,
     Harry.


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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Ghostscript 2.4
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:22:27 GMT

Re <9204150411.AA26697@raisin-nut> <1644@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM>:

> 1. GS 2.4 seems to displace output a little -- it's not a problem, but
> 	I have to insert a 0 50 translate line to make it come out right.
> 	Why does this happen?

I don't know yet.  Several people have reported shifted output on H-P
printers.

> 2. I have a 386 and a HP Laserjet III. When Ghostscript is drawing
> 	on the screen it's fast, but when I redirect output to the 
> 	printer, it takes 2-3 minutes per page. Is this normal?

That seems high.  But it depends on the CPU speed, the complexity of
the page, the printer resolution, and whether you have a disk cache
in RAM.  Printing bitmap images is known to be very slow; 2-3 minutes
for a page consisting largely of bitmaps is not out of line.  If you
would like to follow up on this, please e-mail to ghost@aladdin.com.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 8-9 AM M-F/msg
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Ghostscript 2.4.1 delayed 3 days
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:25:31 GMT

Other commitments have prevented me from taking care of a couple of
final problems with Ghostscript 2.4.1.  Release is now planned for
Saturday, April 18.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 8-9 AM M-F/msg
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu
Subject: Results of running timing.ps on several machines
Keywords: Postscript,benchmarks
Reply-To: geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:35:03 GMT

This is not a bug report, but I thought it might be interesting
to see how ghostscript 2.4 performs are various machines.  The DOS  
machines here are using ghostscript compiled with TurboC++ 1.01.
The NeXT uses gcc as a compiler.

					286+287		486	Next 68040
					12 Mhz		33 Mhz	25 Mhz

forall, 100000 string elements		9390		1380	1031
for, 60000 integers			6150		820	748
read 100000 1-char names		20430		3020	2283
read 100000 1-digit numbers		18070		2580	2284
read 20000 10-char names		10110		2300	1146
read 20000 6-digit numbers		8520		1050	790
display 30000 10-point characters
 at 300 dpi				24990		3960	1593
display 30000 10-point characters
 (from a file) at 300 dpi		26310		4290	1594

Anyone care to post how well other machines do?

P.S. Does anyone know from where I can ftp a Postscript benchmarking
program? (e.g. PPST)


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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: putnam@msc2.msc.cornell.edu (Albert M. Putnam)
Subject: pstoppm.ps colormap still wrong?
Reply-To: news@msc2.msc.cornell.edu
Organization: Materials Science Center
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 05:19:55 GMT

Most color postscript output has 
the rgb color definitions embedded within it, right?
So why does pstoppm.ps define and use its own colormaps?
ppm24run even seems to use the default X colormap.
Is there a newer version of pstoppm.ps that addresses this 
problem, i.e. that uses the colors defined in the
postscript file?

Albert Putnam
putnam@msc.cornell.edu

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Subject: I think GS 2.4 wins!
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:38:07 GMT

Well, Peter, I think that you've gotten GhostScript to the point where it's
really useful now.  I haven't seen this much traffic on gnu.ghostscript.bug
after *any* other previous release.  Congratulations!

   (  um, but don't rest on your laurels.  :-)

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: ppm8run in Ghostscript 2.4
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 02:33:00 GMT

Re <9204040714.AA19687@raisin-nut>
<1992Apr3.052746.18722@melb.bull.oz.au>:

> When I use pstoppm.ps entering '(escher) ppm1run', on a 386 DOS PC using
> gs386.exe a escher.pnm file is produced.
> 
> However if I type '(escher) ppm8run' or '(escher) ppm24run' then
> ghostscript fails - stack error if I remember from last night.  

The problem with ppm8run is a bug in the color palette in pstoppm.ps.
Replace the palette with:

%========== Here we define all 256 color entries. ======
%========== Colors were taken from the X Windows default colors, ======
%========== hacked up a little so we get all 8 primaries. ======
<
000000 ffffff a8a8a8 ebebeb 5c5c5c 373737 5f929e 85ccdd
345057 1f3034 729efe a0ddff 3f578c 263454 6186d8 2f2f64
ffff00 b0e2ff ff0000 808080 efdf84 55fe55 fe0000 66fe57
fe987a feca71 fefefe fe8d7c fea977 fec472 feb875 fe937b
fe957a feb575 98fe5d fe8b7d fea677 feb276 feaf76 febe74
fe837e fefc6a fe0c9a fe0350 fe08b5 6715fe fefb3f fe544b
00c000 20c000 40c000 60c000 80c000 a0c000 c0c000 e0c000
00ff00 20e000 40e000 60e000 80e000 a0e000 c0e000 e0e000
000040 200040 400040 600040 800040 a00040 c00040 e00040
002040 202040 402040 602040 802040 a02040 c02040 e02040
004040 204040 404040 604040 804040 a04040 c04040 e04040
006040 206040 406040 606040 806040 a06040 c06040 e06040
008040 208040 408040 608040 808040 a08040 c08040 e08040
00a040 20a040 40a040 60a040 80a040 a0a040 c0a040 e0a040
00c040 20c040 40c040 60c040 80c040 a0c040 c0c040 e0c040
00e040 20e040 40e040 60e040 80e040 a0e040 c0e040 e0e040
000080 200080 400080 600080 800080 a00080 c00080 e00080
002080 202080 402080 602080 802080 a02080 c02080 e02080
004080 204080 404080 604080 804080 a04080 c04080 e04080
006080 206080 406080 606080 806080 a06080 c06080 e06080
008080 208080 408080 608080 808080 a08080 c08080 e08080
00a080 20a080 40a080 60a080 80a080 a0a080 c0a080 e0a080
00c080 20c080 40c080 60c080 80c080 a0c080 c0c080 e0c080
00e080 20e080 40e080 60e080 80e080 a0e080 c0e080 e0e080
0000ff 2000c0 4000c0 6000c0 8000c0 a000c0 c000c0 ff00ff
0020c0 2020c0 4020c0 6020c0 8020c0 a020c0 c020c0 e020c0
0040c0 2040c0 4040c0 6040c0 8040c0 a040c0 c040c0 e040c0
0060c0 2060c0 4060c0 6060c0 8060c0 a060c0 c060c0 e060c0
0080c0 2080c0 4080c0 6080c0 8080c0 a080c0 c080c0 e080c0
00a0c0 20a0c0 40a0c0 60a0c0 80a0c0 a0a0c0 c0a0c0 e0a0c0
00c0c0 20c0c0 40c0c0 60c0c0 80c0c0 a0c0c0 c0c0c0 e0c0c0
00ffff 20e0c0 40e0c0 60e0c0 80e0c0 a0e0c0 c0e0c0 e0e0c0
> def

The problem with ppm24run is probably that you are running out of
memory.  8.5" x 11" x 72 dpi x 72 dpi x 3 bytes/pixel = approximately
1.5 Mb for the image.  Because of the way I implemented PPM output
(quite wrong, in retrospect), it can't do banding the way printer
devices do.  This will be fixed in release 2.5, if not in 2.4.1.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Dumb question: gs 2.4 chokes on .pfb's
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 08:38:59 GMT

Re <9204100344.AA06326@raisin-nut> <2695@dove.nist.gov>:

> This is probably an RTFM, but I can't find anything in TFM that
> addresses it. Please help.

Thank you for having read TFM first!

> When I try to load a .pfb file (like
> Adobe's por_____.pfb (palatino-roman)) gs complains with a screenfull
> of numbers (0's and 3's) and a complaint beginning ``/undefined''

This is not a simple or obvious problem.  Someone else has reported
it, and I'm working on it right now.  I haven't any idea yet what
causes it.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 8-9 AM M-F/msg
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (XiaoFei Wang)
Subject: Re: DOS version of ghostscript
Organization: Physics Dept, State U of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:38:21 GMT

/* From the keyboard of schultz@halley.ESt.3m.COM (John C. Schultz) */:
:
:3. I can only run the .exe files from the installation directory. 
:
Set GS_LIB to the path where you installed your GS and GS will run from
other directories. For example, 

set GS_LIB = c:\gs24; c:\gs24\fonts 
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.UK (Thomas Plass)
Subject: Re: Dumb question: gs 2.4 chokes on .pfb's
Reply-To: thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 18:28:17 GMT

In article <9204100138.1.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:

>  > When I try to load a .pfb file (like
>  > Adobe's por_____.pfb (palatino-roman)) gs complains with a screenfull
>  > of numbers (0's and 3's) and a complaint beginning ``/undefined''
>  
>  This is not a simple or obvious problem.  Someone else has reported
>  it, and I'm working on it right now.  I haven't any idea yet what
>  causes it.
>  
>  L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306

For what they are worth, here are some observations I made with
respect to the problem, using the real mode MSDOS executable of
Ghostscript2.4 (gs.exe):

(a) I printed a document to disk using the new Windows 3.1 PS driver.
The driver downloads an error handler into the print-file which
will print out stuff when things go haywire, e.g. when the interpreter
can't successfully load the font file. Now, the interpreter has to
print these messages and it does so (hold your breath) using the very
same font it choked on.(??)

(b) While the interpreter rejects some (but not all) dubious converted
binary font files, it will also barf at some (but not all) Adobe fonts
(see first quote).

(c) The protected mode version of gs24 (gs386.exe) will load all of my
fonts, _including_ those rejected by gs.exe with no problems at all.
(I thought both versions used the same code, or do they?)  Alas,
gs386.exe and Windows will not coexist (Unix people stop sniggering
:-} ).

I am not complaining, but I would like to see a fix...

th.










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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: moore@forty2.enet.DEc.COM (Paul Moore)
Subject: ghostview1.1 & ghostscript2.4 blows away my system!
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 17:25:45 GMT

I'm running ISC-2.2, and used gcc to built the above software. 

I'm able to use it to successfully display a postscript file. However, when I 
use any of the mouse buttons, it causes my system to crash and reboot. 

Has anyone else found this problem?

PM

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: jmower@itchy.geog.albany.edu (Jim Mower)
Subject: Need help printing PostScript to SparcPrinter
Keywords: Newsprint, SparcPrinter
Organization: Geography and Planning, University at Albany
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:19:04 GMT

I am using using Newsprint on a SparcStation to drive a SparcPrinter.
Unfortunately, the Newsprint software regularly misinterprets some of
the PostScript that it receives.  I would like to use Ghostscript to
take the place of the terminal filter in Newsprint and have it send a
raster to the SparcPrinter.  Can this be done, and if so, has anybody
done it already?  Thanks--I can't afford another Sun software
upgrade... 




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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: Results of running timing.ps on several machines
Keywords: Postscript,benchmarks
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:02:41 GMT

>forall, 100000 string elements		9390		1380	1031

Might you be able to supply units for these numbers?

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (XiaoFei Wang)
Subject: How to Quit ?
Organization: Physics Dept, State U of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 01:24:42 GMT

Ghostscript on PC: 

After Printing a Postscript file using Ghostscript, it leaves:
GS>
and I have to type quit and then print the second file. 

Suppose I have to print 10 files. I want to send a batch file and then
go out to buy a coffee and then pick up the ten files, how can I do it?

PS: GS2.4 have position problem on HP laserjet. A TeX file dvips'ed to 
postscript is cut on first line when printing it using Ghostscript 2.4
but not 2.3. 

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: 'random fonts' program
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:56:14 GMT

In <9204070555.AA27697@raisin-nut>
<TOBY.92Apr6182343@r3h.cs.man.ac.uk>, Toby Howard writes:

> The following 'random fonts' program (from The PostScript language
> journal 2/1) makes GhostScript 2.4 (3/25/92) blow up with:
> 
> Initializing... done.
> Error: /undefinedresult in --mod--
> Operand stack:
> []  1416878226  0

The problem is that the program assumes (contrary to the warning on
p. 421 of the Second Edition of the PostScript Language Reference
Manual) that all available fonts appear as entries in FontDirectory.
This is the case for most printers, but it is not part of the
PostScript language definition.  Ghostscript, in particular, loads
all fonts from disk dynamically; they don't appear in FontDirectory
until they've been loaded.

You can work around this problem by invoking
	loadallfonts
before running the program.

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (XiaoFei Wang)
Subject: Re: How to Quit ?
Organization: Physics Dept, State U of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:31:57 GMT

/* From the keyboard of thu@huedv.sta.sub.org */:
:
:Simply print *11* files - the last one is 'quit.ps'   :-)
:
There seems to be requirement on how many files are allowed on command
line. 

I tested that 10 files will be too many and 8 seems to be fine. 
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