Re: flexfax: ghostscript tiffg3 floating point error

[Damian Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com>]

You might want to try the latest version of ghostscript from Aladdins
web site - they already have an RPM I think. I had some hassle with
fonts and upgrading to version 5.50 cleared it up. Version 5.50 isn't
under the GPL, but it is free to use as long as you don't sell it on.

Damian

Russell P. Sutherland wrote:
> 
> I have experienced a floating point error that occurs when my PS code
> attempts to render a Times-Roman outline font.
> 
> Here are the details:
> 
> %uname -a
> Linux joefox.quist.on.ca 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 i686 unknown
> (Redhat 5.2)
> %gs -v
> GNU Ghostscript 4.03 (1998-5-1)
> Copyright (C) 1996 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
> 
> % gs -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -sOutputFile=qwe.fax mmcover.ps
> GNU Ghostscript 4.03 (1998-5-1)
> Copyright (C) 1996 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
> Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Medi font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021004l.pfb... 1931572 581827 1320168 32145 0 done.
> Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 1962376 589791 1340252 39183 0 done.
> Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 2002544 630805 1360336 57084 0 done.
> Floating point exception (core dumped)
> %
> 
> The PS code is attached which  was generated from a MacWrite application.
> The x11 device renders without error.
> 
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>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>    mmcover.ps   Name: mmcover.ps
>                 Type: Postscript Document (application/postscript)