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[SOLVED] ps2pdf broke because of buggy ghostscript ? | #1 |
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I have this very serious problem recently:
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Now, the related issues is that I cannot view eps file correctly under xdvi. Thanks for your help. I have [root@centos61-hp ~]# rpm -qva | grep xdvi xdvik-22.84.14-9.el6.x86_64 [root@centos61-hp ~]# rpm -qva | grep ghostscript ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.1.el6.noarch ghostscript-8.70-11.el6_2.6.x86_64 |
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Posted on: 2012/3/23 3:38
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Re: ps2pdf broke because of buggy ghostscript ? | #2 |
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I solved the problem. But I will share my experience.
Towards the end of 2011, I was excited to know the OOoLatex in openoffice and I was able to include OOoLatex through Tool -> Extension -> Add -> Browse to local disk -> OOoLatex-4.0.0-beta-2-linux.oxt Then I could create nice Latex equations in openoffice presentation. But to get a high quality equation, I need to put the bakoma font in the system. Back then in 2011 when I was still using CentOS 5.2 or so, I need to wget http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma.zip unzip it, and then mv bakoma /usr/share/fonts It worked on 5.x CentOS, but I must admit I did not test it thoroughly because soon after that (early 2012) I switched to CentOS 6.1. Recently, I repeated the above steps in CentOS 6.1 and move bakoma to /usr/share/fonts and apparently this breaks ps2pdf, xdvi in rending eps files, ... By removing /usr/share/fonts/bakoma then the problem goes away. One thing I notice is that the OOoLatex on CentOS 6.1 renders equations EMF perfectly even without having me to install bakoma! So I guess CentOS 6.1 is really up to date that I can skip bakoma. I have learned that installing new fonts in the system can break things big time ! Thanks if you are still following me. |
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Posted on: 2012/3/23 12:41
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Re: [SOLVED] ps2pdf broke because of buggy ghostscript ? | #3 |
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Thanks for reporting back with your self-solution. Marking this thread [SOLVED] for posterity.
Do note that CentOS-6.1 is obsolete and consequently unsupported. You should "yum update" to 6.2. |
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Posted on: 2012/3/23 14:39
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