RHEL Ghostscript generates errors when trying to opening a PostScript file encoded in EUC-JP in RHEL5

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Issue

  • Running gsx to display a PostScript file in a window results in the following error message:

    Error: /invalidfont in --scalefont--
    Operand stack:
       euc-jpdict   fCourier   --dict:17/19(L)--   0.909091
    Execution stack:
       %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   
       %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- false 1   
       %stopped_push   1846   1   3   %oparray_pop   1845   1   3   %oparray_pop 1829   1   3   
       %oparray_pop 1723   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   
       %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   
       %stopped_push   --nostringval--
    Dictionary stack:
       --dict:1148/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:72/200(L)--   
       --dict:59/200(L)--   --dict:11/18(L)--
    Current allocation mode is local
    Last OS error: 2
    Current file position is 16848
    GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
    

    and nothing is displayed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6
  • ghostscript-8.70-14.el5

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