[KLUG Members] Ghostscript/pdflib issue

[Adam Williams]

>I have a program that uses ghostscript to change a ps file into pdf.  
>However, it seems that with the Helvetica font, it's 'forgetting' the 
>numbers 4,7, and 8, and the numbers F, H, K, V, X, Z.  This works on one 
>server, using ghostscript 5.50, but this new server, using ghostscript 
>7.03 (both AFPL ghostscript) can't.  I've done some googling, I've done 
>some other fiddling, and I can't get this stupid thing to be able to use 
>the Helvetica font to it's fullest extent. At this point, I've got people 
>calling me, and I don't know what to do.  

Does your ghostscript fonts package match your ghostscript version?  Are
any updates to ghostscript available from your disto?