Well, part of the problem is that I'm *not* using the 'charcoal' font. 
Does pap do anything meaningfully different than just send a file to a 
printer?

-Capt Avram Dorfman
Chief, Network Operations
email: dorfman@pentagon.mil
(last resort email: avram@pobox.com)

:%s/\(do|-<\)/\1\1/g
:1,$d

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Capt. Avram Dorfman wrote:
> > 
> [ print jobs dying.... ]
> 
> > When it dies, I get an entry in my lpd spooler logfile w/ a ghostscript 
> > error in it. It's pretty big, but the gist of it is 
> > 
> >    Error: /invalidfont in -dict-
> >    Operand stack:
> >       Charcoal   --dict:12/25--   Font   Charcoal   --dict:12/25--   Charcoal
> > 
> > The rest of it is a gs stack trace. What I don't get is that if I print 
> > to a postscript file on the mac, and then do an "lpr <file>" on netbsd, 
> > it works fine.
> >
> > What am I missing?
> 
> Apparently, the charcoal font.  That's probably a TrueType font which the
> LaserWriter 8 driver is properly frobbing into something the PostScript
> interpreter can understand when you print to a PostScript file.  However,
> gs or whatever is doing the interpreting on the NetBSD machine doesn't
> have this capability.  Try using another font besides Charcoal (and why
> are you using it, anyway?  I thought it was only for screen display...)
> 
> Of course, I know next to nothing about this, so it's all pretty much a
> guess.  Good luck!
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> I speak only on my own behalf, not for my employer.
>