On Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:03:50 BST Robert Goulding wrote: > Sorry to keep up the stream of emails. My newly installed groff 1.23 cannot > find DESC files for pdf and dvi (but handles ps OK) -- even though those > files are in fact there in the right place. It seems to be looking for font > files in the wrong place (perhaps in my stock groff installation?); gropdf > will only work if I set the font path explicitly with -F
The standard groff font paths are embedded into gropdf when it is built by make. Lines 58-9 should look something like:- $cfg{GROFF_VERSION}='1.23.0.rc1.2692-2d9e'; $cfg{GROFF_FONT_PATH}='/usr/local/share/groff/site-font:/usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/ font:/usr/lib/font'; Groff itself look for DESC files, so if the message is:- cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1' groff can't find it. But if the message is:- failed to open device description file 'DESC' it has come from gropdf. It will help to know which message you are seeing. Cheers Deri