Next, ghostview. I took an example file, like
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/vertical-orizontal-test.ps
I verified that I can open this in my old SUSE8.2 and see all characters correctly. Next, I open it with gs as normal user in 9.3, from bash. The result are Mojibake and the messages: --- gs vertical-horizontal-test.ps ESP Ghostscript 8.15 (2004-09-22) Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Scanning /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ for fonts... 12 files, 12 scanned, 0 new fonts. Scanning /usr/share/fonts/ for fonts... 2 files, 2 scanned, 0 new fonts. Can't find (or can't open) font file
/home/hisha/Resource/Font/Ryumin-Light-UniJIS-UTF8-V.
Can't find (or can't open) font file Ryumin-Light-UniJIS-UTF8-V.
'/home/hisha' is weird!
I found that the problem is caused by the environment variable GS_LIB. Apparently KDE sets it to
GS_LIB=/home/hisha/.fonts
If you unset this variable, ghostscript works again.
Therefore the problem doesn't happen if you don't use KDE and it also disappears after 'su -' because then you do not have GS_LIB in the environment anymore.
As a temporary workaround, you can add
unset GS_LIB
to your ~/.profile.
I'll check now out why KDE sets this environment variable.
I reported that as bug #91584 against KDE at
Yahari, that was the clincher. I guess that this already does it for all requirements. Thank you so much! Teached me a lesson: Always know your environment variables :) Hisha __________________________________ Save the earth http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ondanka/