Summary: | GSview uses different font in status bar after installing GS 8.62 | ||
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Product: | Artifex GSview | Reporter: | goldart.geo |
Component: | General | Assignee: | Russell Lang <gsview> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | christinedelight.top85, htl10 |
Priority: | P4 | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows 98 | ||
Customer: | Word Size: | --- | |
Attachments: | gs862.png |
Description
goldart.geo
2008-05-22 18:37:17 UTC
Created attachment 4042 [details]
gs862.png
Attachment GS862.PNG shows the script font used by GSview 4.9 when after
installing Ghostscript 8.62.
GSview uses the default dialog font, using the name "MS Shell Dlg". This is mapped by the local system to the preferred font. See the following page for details http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282187 Please check that your font substitution. On my Windows Vista system, "MS Shell Dlg" maps to "Microsoft Sans Serif" Actually, the font appeared in the status line in the attachment is Lucida Handwriting Italic, which is installed to the system font folder on the test machine. However, MS Shell Dlg is not mapped to that font. In addition, the test machine is running Windows 98, which does not support the MS Shell Dlg substitution feature at all, so there is no font (alias) named MS Shell Dlg in the test machine. Lucida Handwriting Italic (LHANDW.TTF) is on my seldomly used Vista partition which has never had ghostscript nor gsview going anywhere near. The font file has a date stamp of 1999 and likely was shipped with some MS OEM product like Microsoft Works. This report appeared to be due to a broken/outdated OS which picked a random font and randomly switching font used for newer OS features not supported? Looks like a problem with old versions of Windows. GSview 5.0 was built with a compiler that produces code that won't run on Windows 98. |