printing borken in head ?

[Luis Pedro Coelho]

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[ thanks Helge for pointing this thread out to me. It was one of my "ignored" 
threads in kmail :) ]

Le Tuesday 12 August 2003 19:36, Helge Deller a écrit :
> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 11:15, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 08:38, Helge Deller wrote:
> > >
> > > - watching the PS file with kghostview gives the same error message
> > >    as I mentioned in my original mail:
> > >
> > > ESP Ghostscript 7.05.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> > > Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.libfile--
> > > Operand stack:
> > >    Helvetica-Uni-00   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   Helvetica
> > > Helvetica   Font   Helvetica   514249   Helvetica   --nostringval--
> > > Helvetica   NimbusSanL-Regu  
> > > (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/n019003l.pfb)
> >
> > Ghostscripts security settings do not allow you to read
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ fonts/URW/n019003l.pfb

Yes, that's how I read it has well

> > I find that somewhat strange since that font seems to be accessed from .
> > libfile (?) and I would expect that ghostscript takes the necassery
> > actions to be able to read its own font files.

see below...

> Thanks for the hint Waldo !
>
> I looked into the kghostview sources and the attached patch fixes all
> my kghostscript and print preview problems.
> Maybe someone with enough expierience with gv might want to comment
> and commit the right patch to CVS ?

Your patch reverts the security updates which lead to KDE 3.1.1a (from 3.1.1). 
See http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030409-1.txt for more info.

As Waldo says however, gs should be able to find its fonts. According to  
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/gnu/7.05/Language.htm , the .locksafe 
command should allow gs to read the paths contained in /FontResourceDir and 
FONTPATH. Therefore, this seems like it might be an instalation problem where 
you have gs malconfigured (in particular /FontResourceDir is not being set 
right).

Maybe adding a couple of directories to your FONTPATH evnv var would fix the 
problems you are seeing.

regards,
- -- 
Luis Pedro Coelho

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http://luispedro.journalspace.com/

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