In the attached file, charpath renders the glyph with gross distortion (visible on the lower right serif of the 'n'), while the rendering of the same glyph with "show" seems fine.
Created attachment 1055 [details] PostScript file demonstrating charpath distortion The font in question is a Type1 generated from FontForge (converted from OpenType with Type1 glyph data).
Patch to HEAD : http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2004-November/005047.html Patch to GS_8_1X : http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2004-November/005048.html