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From: joerg@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problem starting gs (ghostscript)
Date: 20 May 1993 15:28:31 +0200
Organization: SaxNet, Dresden, Germany
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References: <1993May5.061314.13636@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <1993May08.212816.22198@crash> <BDC.93May10214712@transit.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <BDC.93May10214712@transit.ai.mit.edu> bdc@ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) writes:
>In article <1993May08.212816.22198@crash> tcd@crash.cts.com (Terry C. Dawson) writes:
>
> M.C. Wong (wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au) wrote:
> : Hi,
> : I tried running gs (ghostscript) from etc01 distribution but
> : getting the following error :
> :
> : Initializing... Zget t_string 256 >= 256
> : Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get
> : Operand stack:
> : 256 ..&&
> : [garbage deleted]
>you need to install the X driver me thinks
>
>i redid the make with the X driver and its fine...
>
That's only a partial truth. I've noticed some same behaviour, but
worked around it by using another printer resolution. Obviously, the
X driver is not affected, but some of the printer drivers. For me,
the epson driver did it with the hi-resolution part. Since the lowres
wasn't interesting for me, i didn't search for the bug. (It's some-
thing like a 256-char translation table which is defined as a string,
but obviously, strings are limited to < 256 chars...)
btw., the next release (2.5...) is released, should be better.
At least, their README states the font renderer has been improved,
and if you really wanna print something, this would be a great
favour!
J"org
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