KDE Font Installer wipe out contents of /usr/share/ghostscript/X.XX/lib/Fontmap

[James Richard Tyrer]

Polar Bear wrote:
> I have been using KDE 3.2 with QT3.3.0 and QT3.3.1 for a while and I 
> realised that after running the Font Installer from the Control Centre, 
> I can no longer print from non-KDE applications like Mozilla 1.6. Upon 
> investigation, I realised that running the Font Installer wipe out the 
> contents of the ghostscript Fontmap file (effectively making it a zero 
> byte file), in my case it was "/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/Fontmap" 
> on Gentoo Linux.  Restoring the Fontmap file, restores printing from 
> Mozilla.
> 
>     cat "(Fontmap.GS) .runlibfile" >> Fontmap
> 
> KDE application may not rely on gs fonts for printing as QT can generate 
> the gs fonts on the fly from the system fonts. That is the reason why 
> Font Installer creates Fontmap in each font directory.  However, it 
> should take into consideration of ths non-KDE application which rely on 
> the ghostscript fonts for printing.

I didn't notice this because I have fonts for all of the aliases (all of 
them had been removed from the "Fontmap.GS" file), and I had installed the 
URW fonts RPM which contains some of the GhostScript fonts.

However, I can confirm that you are correct.  I am in the middle of a build 
  at present so I cannot reconfirm this.

Please make a bug report and advise me of the bug number.

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JRT