Bug 127832 - Ghostscript standard fonts no longer PostScript Level 1
Summary: Ghostscript standard fonts no longer PostScript Level 1
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Printing (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i386 Linux
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Dr. Werner Fink
QA Contact: Johannes Meixner
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Reported: 2005-10-12 15:31 UTC by Johannes Meixner
Modified: 2005-10-12 15:35 UTC (History)
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Description Johannes Meixner 2005-10-12 15:31:57 UTC 
Have the following PostScript files:

level1-test.ps
------------------------------------------------------------
%!
/Helvetica findfont
%/Times-Roman findfont
%/Courier findfont
%12 scalefont setfont
100 100 moveto
(ABC) show
showpage
------------------------------------------------------------

set-gs-level1.ps
------------------------------------------------------------
%!
1 .setlanguagelevel
------------------------------------------------------------
This is a special Ghosscript command to switch
Ghostscript into a Level-1-only interpreter.

Run both files with
gs set-gs-level1.ps level1.test.ps
results
--------------------------------------------------------------
Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb...
Error: /invalidfont in -dict-
--------------------------------------------------------------
The same with Times-Roman and Courier.
It works without set-gs-level1.ps

I didn't test if this also happens under Suse Linux 9.3
but I guess that it happens since Ghostscript 8.x.
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-10-12 15:35:21 UTC 
PostScript Level 1 is dead.