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Re: printing problems because of memory consumption of gs
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Torsten |
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Re: printing problems because of memory consumption of gs |
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Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:45:10 +0100 |
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On 04.01.2015 16:40, Torsten wrote:
> With a recent build from the gui-release branch I encounter the problem
> that printing a figure (gnuplot) starts a gs-process that consumes up to
> 2 GB of memory. This makes it nearly impossible to build the docs on a
> computer with only 2 GB. Plotting directly in gnuplot with an eps-, pdf-
> or png-terminal is no problem. Is anyone else seeing this issue?
>
If someone else runs into this: I found the reason and a workaround for
the issue described in my previous post. The problem bulding the docs
seems to be that the produced eps-files (voronoi.eps, triplot.eps, etc.)
have text entries of the form
[ [({}) 200.0 0.0 true true 0 (0.2)]
] -66.7 MRshow
with a font '{}'. Debugging gs shows that gs can not find font '{}' and
then queries all system fonts. This action then consumes much resources.
This can be avoided by
export GS_OPTIONS='-dNONATIVEFONTMAP -sSUBSTFONT=Helvetica'
which prevents using native fonts and replace all unknown fonts by
Helvetica.
Torsten