PostScript bugs in R-0.63.1

Arne Kovac Arne.Kovac@uni-essen.de
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 01:35:39 +0100 (NFT)


On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Ted.Harding wrote:

> On 01-Feb-99 Ben Bolker wrote:
> 
> I don't know the details of R's PS implementation; however, if it is
> using definefont attempting to register more than one key for the Symbol
> font then that would be consistent with your results. Ghostscript and
> ghostview should both be able to handle Level-2; I'm not sure why
> ghostscript under xdvi should not be able to (unless xdvi somehow
> inhibits it). Apart from that, the observed behaviour is compatible with
> HPLJ and AppleLW being Level-2, while the SPARCprinter is Level-1.

I have similar problems with R 0-63.1 and LaTeX even without xdvi: after
compiling my LaTeX-document with latex and dvips I can't view it with
ghostview 1.5 anymore due to some error messages. Printing on a Laserjet
4MP works.

Arne

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