Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news From: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: trouble with Fonts-1.0-free Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 16:59:38 GMT References: <1991Feb5.185207.23802@ms.uky.edu> <7977@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: news@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Brigham Young University Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu's message of 6 Feb 91 15:37:18 GMT References: <1991Feb5.185207.23802@ms.uky.edu> <7977@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: >In article <1991Feb5.185207.23802@ms.uky.edu> beech@ms.uky.edu (Wayne Beech) writes: >>Hello, >>I recently ftp'd a copy of Fonts-1.0-free off of sonata.cc.purdue.edu and >>installed the fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts using the supplied Makefile. The >>fonts work/look great on the screen but when I go to print something that >>contains one of these fonts i get an alert panel with them message: >>PostScript error: %%[Error: invalidfont; Offending Command: show]%% >>Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? or does anyone else >>experience this problem? >>Thanks, >>Wayne >One of the fonts, not sure which, does that. I de-installed a whole lot of >'em (after struggling for hours to figure out which font it was -- I am very >dismayed that you can crash the window server so easily as to have a font in >there (as a space) that doesn't exist any more) and it all works fine now. >It might be Kallestar -- that doesn't come up on the screen very well for me. >I since canned it. >(note, it could be more than one) This is strange. I'm running 2.0 ('40) on my cube, and have not had this problem. They all work fine. -Bill -- __________________Prof. William V. Smith____________________ EMail: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu or uunet!hamblin.math.byu.edu!smithw SMail: Math Dept. -- 314 TMCB; BYU; Provo, UT 84602 (USA) NeXTmail: smithw@mathnx.math.byu.edu Phone: +1 801 378 2061 FAX: +1 801 378 2800