Re: Chordmode breaks in 2.10 and 2.11

[Ed Catmur]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 19:42 +1100, Brett Duncan wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > I looked at the .ps file that Brett sent me, and couldn't notice 
> > anything strange
> > there. The problems seems somehow to be related to the Verdana TrueType
> > font that's used for the chord names, but I don't understand why your 
> > Ghostscript
> > (which should be the one included in the LilyPond distribution) fails 
> > to handle it.
> > Over here, there are no problems to convert your PS file to PDF.
> >
> >   /Mats
> Thanks for looking at this, Mats.
> 
> I am completely baffled by this problem. I've checked all the instances 
> of the Verdana font I can find on my laptop, and they all check out 
> okay. Maybe there's another instance of the font somewhere I can't find. 
> I thought maybe the wrong version of GS was being triggered, but running 
> with --verbose shows that GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.56 
> (2006-05-20) is the version called. And when I tried using ps2pdf 
> directly to process the .ps file, it choked - "invalid font in 
> --glyphshow--".

I have no idea whether this is related, but that error message reminds
me of http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688536 - perhaps you
might try the patch there?

Ed