Re: 3.6.1 produces eps files that are unusable on Debian wheezy

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov
<address@hidden> wrote:
> BTW, the problem with "{}" exist with the original doc files in octave tar 
> ball.
> E.g. in doc/interpreter
> gs mesh.eps
>
> GPL Ghostscript 9.04 (2011-08-05)
> Copyright (C) 2011 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/Resource/Font/StandardSymL.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file StandardSymL.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/Resource/Font/StandardSymL.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file StandardSymL.
> Querying operating system for font files...
> Loading StandardSymL font from
> /usr/share/fonts/texlive-symbol/usyr.pfb... 4134504 2745941 8163088
> 3641767 2 done.
> Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 4298344 2897267 8163088
> 3710135 2 done.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/Resource/Font/{}.
> Can't find (or can't open) font file {}.
> Didn't find this font on the system!
> Substituting font Courier for {}.
> Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022003l.pfb... 4442208 3041816 8163088
> 3755888 2 done.
>>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
>
> I am not sure if we should consider this a bug.

Thanks for finding that, at least it's consistent.  I'm still not
convinced whether the problem is with octave, gnuplot, or gs.  I'll
poke around some more.

-- 
mike