Without prior uninstalling GSview 4.9, after uninstalling GPL Ghostscript 8.61, then installing GPL Ghostscript 8.62, GSview 4.9 shows script font at status bar, which can become difficult to read. Furthermore, the font isn't even installed to the operating system's font directory, nor it appears to be one of the fonts shipped with GPL Ghostscript 8.62, which can make the cause of font change difficult to track. This does not happen in when using earlier releases of GPL Ghostscript with GSview. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ghostscript version (or include output from "gs -h"): 8.62 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Where you got Ghostscript: Ghostscript.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hardware system you are using (including printer model if the problem involves printing): Memory: 384MB CPU: Intel Pentium II 400 Sound: ESS Solo-1 Video: Neomagic MagicMedia 256AV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Operating system you are using: Windows 98SE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Suggested fix, if any: Unless GSview starts to allow user to choose what font is used in status bar, GSview should just use default font provided by the host operating environment in status bar. In addition, this bug also exposes the fact that GSview and/or Ghostscript packages contain an undocumented font. If it was the developers' decision to carry such font in either package, such font should be accessible to users without having to run an obscure combination of Ghostscript and GSview to find it.
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.