GhostPCL fonts question

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Sep 15 06:11:14 PDT 2017


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>

>| | Did I forget to move the font files?  Where should the go?
>| 
>| Try /usr/local/share, or /usr/local/share/ghostscript.
>| 
>| Rather ugly but you may have to run 'strings' on the pcl6 binary.
> 
> 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

I will give that a shot, JP; thanks.

Sorry for the delayed reply; I took a week off to have a hurricane.

(And survived just fine; power and cooling and internet back Tue PM, little
damage.)

Cheers,
-- jra
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