Re: tlug: Simple Ghostview Question

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

On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Rob" == bickel  <bickel@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Rob> I have ghostview 3.58 that I installed from PJE-0.1beta (the
> 
> Huh?  AFAIK ghostview is still at 1.5 or something like that; I have
> not looked at it for a while, but that's where it was say 6-8 months
> ago.  It hasn't been actively maintained for quite a while.

Okay, okay it is not AFAIK ghostview, by gv 3.5.8.  By the way,
this is what is included in the new PJE packages.

> 

> This sounds highly unlikely to me, but I'll take your word for it.

Unlikely, but true.  I did find out why though.

> Get the student to do `echo $PATH' in both situations.  Look for
> multiple versions of Ghostscript (it's probably not a problem with gv
> or ghostview) on the PATH.  What is the ghostscript console saying
> while this is happening?

This was the problem.  I really hadn't even thought of that.  The whole
time I'm thinking that somehow I have my fonts screwed up.  But in
reality, I had an older version of gs in my path before the newer
version.  When I removed the older version.  No problem.  I really
appreciate your help.  It only took you to say look at the path, for
me to realize what was going on, but I think I may never have thought
of that myself.  

Thanks again,  now I will always remember to make sure I am running
the program I think I am running.

Rob




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