Re: [PLUG] gs ugliness under solaris 8 [OT]

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> >The actual .ps files are flawless, they look great upon printout and on
> >other machines. Three viewers have been tried: gs, gv, and ghostview. All
> >of them look exactly the same (terrible).
>
> 	Well, gv and ghostview just call on gs to render to a
> "display device" - so that just proves that it's gs.    What if you
> ask gs to render to a bitmap (-sDEVICE=jpeg)?

xxx:/home/user>gs -sDEVICE=jpeg /tmp/goya.jpeg
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 (2002-11-21)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Error: /undefined in
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
--nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1053/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:69/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 5
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

> >I am using the latest version of from sunfreeware.com for solaris 8
> >(sparc). I am running in a dual-headed environment.
> >
>
> 	What version of gs is it??

   PKGINST:  SMCghosts
      NAME:  ghostscript
  CATEGORY:  application
      ARCH:  sparc
   VERSION:  8.00
   BASEDIR:  /usr/local
    VENDOR:  Aladdin Enterprises
    PSTAMP:  Steve Christensen
  INSTDATE:  Mar 05 2003 17:04
     EMAIL:  steve@smc.vnet.net
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:      601 installed pathnames
                   5 shared pathnames
                  16 directories
                  34 executables
               32982 blocks used (approx)

Thanks for the help.

Fred
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