[Info-vax] Ghostscript update for VMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <iutd30$4kg$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
(Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes: 

> I hadn't used it in a long time and was surprised to find that it had 
> problems finding fonts, whereas it definitely worked in the past (with 
> the same program generating the PostScript---a Fortran program unchanged 
> since the mid-1990s).  I resorted to bitmapping the output (on another 
> machine) and could then view the files locally (the original files 
> printed fine on a PostScript printer (from HP, as it happens)).
> 
> Considering the antiquity of my present version and the fact that it 
> doesn't work anyway, it's probably better to start over from scratch.
> 
> (I must admit that I have never understood what actually goes on under
> the hood involving font selection etc, which fonts I have to install
> where, if and if so how font substitution happens if a font is missing
> etc.) 

Could this problem be related to the disappearance of Display PostScript 
with 7.2 or whenever it was?