[fptex] mktexpk looking for Ghostscript??

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Jose Carlos Oliveira Santos wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, ALAN A DUNWELL wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> > kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+264/600 --dpi 864
> > ptmb8r
> > gsftopk(k) version 1.19.1
> > Can't locate Ghostscript ! Exiting ...
> > mktexpk: Running gsftopk ptmb8r 864
> > command gsftopk ptmb8r 864 return 1
> > mktexpk: warning: can't open log file ptmb8r.log.
> > mktexpk: `gsftopk ptmb8r 864' failed.
> > kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> > windvi: Can't find font ptmb8r.864pk
>
> I am not sure about this, but if you are using Ghostscript 7.00 you may
> have been a victim of the bug described at
>
> http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/gsftopk.html

I'm sure not.  That manifests itself as gsftopk running and then failing.

I have in the past found it necessary both to put the gs `bin' directory in
the path and to set the environment variable GS_LIB.  As Fabrice said, the
Registry should give the information, but

a) with the security levels we run on our teaching cluster it seems not to
for individual accounts, and

b) my Win2k laptop has been updated through so many versions of
gsview/gs/Windows that the settings seem to have got confused.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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