GhostScript problem when previewing dvips output with psfont.sty

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From: G.D. Pratt
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 1990 14:01

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I just got Ghostscript version 1.4beta3 ( the free ****Script interpreter from
FSF ) working on a Sequent Symmetry with X11R4

To my surprise I found it could deal with the dreaded output from dvips
(version 4.0 (C) 1987-9 Radical Eye Software) and allows you to preview 
(slowly) LaTeX documents with embedded ****Script figures before sending 
them to the printer. 

However I could not get it to deal with dvips output which came from 
document using the "psfont.sty" mechanism to use ****Script fonts. It only
works when the Computer Modern fonts are used and the font definition is 
downloaded to the printer.

It throws up this :-

Loading font file tim_b.gsf... done.
Error: /undefined in /get
  ostack: --nostringval-- 0 Gamma 1 Delta 2 Theta 3 Lambda 4 Xi 5 Pi 6 Sigma 7 U
psilon 8 Phi 9 Psi 10 Omega 12 fi 13 fl 16 dotlessi 18 grave 19 acute 20 caron 2
1 breve 22 macron 23 ring 24 cedilla 25 germandbls 26 ae 27 oe 28 oslash 29 AE 3
0 OE 31 Oslash 34 quotedblright 60 exclamdown 62 questiondown 92 quotedblleft 94 circumflex 95 dotaccent 123 endash 124 emdash 125 quotedbl 127 dieresis dieresi
s --nostringval-- CharStrings

but unfortunately my knowledge of ****Script errors is rudimentary/missing.

Has anyone else seen this problem or know waht the solution might be?

cheers,
gerry
-- 
gerry pratt - workstation support - university of keele
email: cca13@uk.ac.keele.seq1 * tel: 0782 621111 x 3290

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From: cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,gnu.ghostscript.bug,comp.text.tex
Subject: GhostScript problem when previewing dvips output with psfont.sty
Keywords: GhostScript dvips 4.0 psfont.sty
Message-ID: <474@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jul 90 14:01:26 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England
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