Re: tlug: Simple Ghostview Question

["Robert J. Bickel" <rob@example.com>]

On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Craig Oda wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 1997 bickel@example.com wrote:
> 
> > fine, Japanese okay.  Now also, when one of my students rlogins in to my machine and
> > uses my gv or gs, but displaying on his machine, he can see the Japanese.  When he
> > logs in directly to my machine, he can not.  I must then assume the problem will
> > be somewhere in how I display Japanese, but again on any other program, I can see
> 
> Perhaps it is the fonts on your X11 system that gs is using.  If your
> student does the rlogin and his Xserver, then he is using the Kanji
> fonts on his Xserver, not yours.   If you do a 
> 
>   $ xlsfonts |grep jis
> 
> on your machine and on his, is it different?  Here are some of mine:

I looked.  They appear to be the same.  But what I thought was that if I had
a problem with my fonts in my X server, that I would have a problem with other
programs as well.  I don't have a problem with any other program with the
exception of Ghostscript and Ghostview.  As I said with xdvi I can see the exact
same file (.dvi) version perfectly.  It is when it becomes postscript that I
can not see Japanese with gs or gv.  Also, I can print it out no problem, so
the actual Postscript file is fine.  The problem is localized to displaying
a postscript file with Japanese on gs or gv on my X-server.  Any ideas
would be appreciated.

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> 
> On a different note, it is kind of sad that PJE is still using
> the older ghostscript.  Is there a PJE package with a newer
> gs?  I wonder why they keep using the older one.

Yes it is a shame.  Although I thought this was a rather recent version
since I had installed JE before and that was a much older version than this
one.

Rob






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