GhostPCL fonts question

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Jean-Pierre Radley averred (on Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 04:49:20PM -0400):
| Jay R. Ashworth averred (on Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 04:17:40PM +0000):
| | I guess we all burned ourselves out before Labor Day weekend. :-)
| | 
| | I'm moving a customer from one machine to another, and I've copied over 
| | pcl6 and the necessary libraries, such that it launches without error, 
| | but a filePro generated invoice I would expect ought to create some PDF
| | output causes the interpreter to exit with error 1, leaving a .pdf file
| | with just a Formfeed in it.
| | 
| | Did I forget to move the font files?  Where should the go?
| | 
| | I don't appear to have $PCLFONTSOURCE set on the old machine, and the
| | only place I see the URW fonts is in the build directory there, not in 
| | any runtime directory -- and the binary's being run from /usr/local/bin,
| | so I know those wouldn't be the ones it would pick, unless the programmers
| | were really foolish.
| | 
| | Ideas?  Brian?  Mark?  Jim?  I know you guys have played with some of that.
| | 
| | Cheers,
| | -- jra
| 
| Try /usr/local/share, or /usr/local/share/ghostscript.  
| 
| Rather ugly but you may have to run 'strings' on the pcl6 binary.
| 
| 
| -- 
| JP



Brian just tickled something here.  Unlike him, I did change the default
suggested location of the fonts.  And I now recall that a couple of
months ago, I experienced exactly the same failure seen by Jay: I'd
copied the binary to a different machine but left the fonts behind.

In my case, I chose /usr/local/fonts when compiling/installing.

On ftp.jpr.com/pub, I offer pcl6forOSR5.tar.bz2 and pcl6forOSR6.tar.bz2;
either one contains:
	/usr/local/fonts
	/usr/local/bin/pcl6
	/usr/local/bin/pcl2fax
	/usr/local/bin/pcl2pdf
	/usr/local/bin/pcl2ps
	/usr/local/share/ghostpdl

-- 
JP