Font problems, unable to print

[Jaakko H Kyro]

On Friday 27 February 2004 14:08, Goffioul Michael wrote:
> Well, this is not really printing-related, because it appears
> ghostscript installation got broken when you installed your additional
> esstix font.

Exactly.

> As most printer drivers relies on ghostscript to 
> perform the PS->printer-language conversion, it's normal that
> printing doesn't work anymore. But the actual problem is ghostscript
> not able to find any font anymore.
> Which tool did you use to install your esstix font?

The KDE Control Panel's font installer. Installed the fonts as root. 

It'll be the last time I use graphical frontend for anything that requires 
root privileges. :)

> If you installed the new font as normal user, do you still have the
> problem when logged in as another user (== maybe the problem from
> your user-specific config files)?

I only have one account on this machine in addition to the root account and I 
get the same results running gs as root too. This problem might be 
Fedora-specific, but their list didn't produce anything.

-- 
Jaakko Kyrö