It seems that there was a related bug that was fixed in ghostscript-gpl-9.15 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436500#c11), but 9.20 is affected by this again. Ghostscript is required to build several packages, like srecord, but infinality breaks it by banning Type 1 fonts. $ echo "/Courier findfont" > test.ps && gs test.ps GPL Ghostscript 9.20 (2016-09-26) Copyright (C) 2016 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.20/Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusMonL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.20/Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusMonL-Regu. Querying operating system for font files... Can't find (or can't open) font file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.20/Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Regu. Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusMonL-Regu. Didn't find this font on the system! Unable to substitute for font. Error: /invalidfont in /findfont Operand stack: Courier Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1999 1 3 %oparray_pop 1998 1 3 %oparray_pop 1982 1 3 %oparray_pop 1868 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 1951 1 3 %oparray_pop Dictionary stack: --dict:1207/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: No such file or directory Commenting out this section of /etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf solves the issue: <!-- Ban Type-1 fonts because they render poorly --> <!-- Comment this out to allow all Type 1 fonts --> <selectfont> <rejectfont> <pattern> <patelt name="fontformat" > <string>Type 1</string> </patelt> </pattern> </rejectfont> </selectfont> I believe this should be commented out by default to prevent the breakage of other packages.
I have the same issue, so I commented that section previously mentioned and the issue is fixed.
I reproduced a similar problem where media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.27 failed to build. I left /etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf alone, and instead created a hack ghostscript-gpl-9.22.ebuild, merged it, and then media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.27 builds fine. So I think this problem will be fixed when we bump app-text/ghostscript-gpl to 9.22 in portage.
I had a problem on my computer where printing stopped working for no apparent reason. Recently I bought a new laptop and have just spent several hours trying to get printing working properly with my Samsung C430W, without any success. I disabled the section preventing type1 font selection as shown here and... printing is now working properly again. I will revert this change and confirm again when ghostscript-gpl is bumped to 9.22.
it should be fixed with current ghostscript versions
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #4) > it should be fixed with current ghostscript versions
