Problem finding fonts.

[Marc van Dongen]

Dear Group,


I am aware of the fact that this posting is off-topic.
A similar question was posted in comp.lang.postscript
and (comp.text.tex---also off-topic) but received no
replies. If anybody knows a better place to pose this
question then please let me know.

My problem is as follows.

I have just installed solaris 2.8 on my ultrasparc.
When I tried to install ghostscript I ran into troubles
because it diddn't seem to be able to find certain
pbf-files. I have exported and set the GS_FONTPATH and the
GS_LIB_DEFAULT variables. The files in these paths
are all readable.


$ ls $GS_FONTPATH/n021023l.pfb
/newdisk/dongen/software/gnugs/fonts//n021023l.pfb
$ echo ls $GS_LIB_DEFAULT/n021023l.pfb
ls /newdisk/dongen/software/gnugs/fonts//n021023l.pfb

Nevertheless I get the following when using gs.

[snip]

>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

Can't find (or can't open) font file n021023l.pfb.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal.
Scanning /newdisk/dongen/software/gnugs/fonts/ for fonts... 169 files, 2 
scanned, 0 new fonts.
Can't find (or can't open) font file n021023l.pfb.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal.
Substituting font Helvetica-Oblique for NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal.
Can't find (or can't open) font file n019023l.pfb.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusSanL-ReguItal.
Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusSanL-ReguItal.
Unable to substitute for font.
Error: /invalidfont in findfont
Operand stack:
   (v)   9.96265   Times-Italic   Font   Times-Italic   219181   Times-Italic   
--nostringval--   Helvetica-Oblique   NimbusSanL-ReguItal

[snip]

I have this problem both with ghostscript 6.0 and gnu
ghostscript 5.5.  Is there something I am missing?
Any suggestions as to how to solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Marc van Dongen
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