[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 133686] no print preview from kword/kpdf

[Jeremy Johnson]

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------- Additional Comments From jazz_johnson verizon net  2006-09-08 18:17 -------
I was using rsnapshot to make rsync backups to another partition every 4hrs.
I configured rsnapshot to exclude /proc /tmp /dev /sys and inadvertently /var/db
(gentoo's package database). The /var partition got corrupted so I had to restore
from an rsnapshot, but I lost Gentoo's package database info, so I rebuilt the
system from scratch by recompiling all the software (listed in Gentoo's /var/lib/portage/world file, which I did not lose)

To check out your idea about misconfiguration, I have tried to print preview a pdf
in kpdf on another up-to-date x86 (instead of amd64) Gentoo computer with KDE-3.5.4 installed. Same problem with blank pages being displayed in print preview. Same
"Bad bounding box error in Type 3 glyph" written to console stderr. But thumbnails and pages are correctly displayed from kpdf itself, just not the print preview. If I open a pdf which does not have a "Bad bounding box error in Type 3 glyph" then kpdf's print preview displays and prints just fine on this as well as the amd64 computer (running x86_64 linux)

On this x86 computer I have ghostscript-esp-8.15.1_p20060430 installed (I needed this ghostscript-esp to make my own .djvu files with djvumake)
On the amd64 computer I have ghostscript-gpl-8.54 installed instead 
(I wanted to see if the choice of ghostscript made a difference)

It therefore appears that KDE-3.4 could print-preview pdfs with "Bad bounding box
in Type 3 glyph errors" but KDE-3.5.4 cannot. Why kword should create postscript with "bad bounding for type 3 glyph" is another matter.