Is CUPS Broken under 3.2 -- solved?

[Marian POPESCU]

Larry Eppley wrote:

> 
>> Larry Eppley wrote:
>> > Is this relevent?
>> >
>> > When I try to print to pdf from within kde, I get this message:
>> >
>> >
>> > gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
>> > -sOutputFile=$out{/home/larry/print.pdf} -sPAPERSIZE=letter -c
>> > .setpdfwrite -f '/tmp/kde-larry/kdeprint_Jdrii5UB' : execution failed
>> > with message:
>> >
>> > All help appreciated.
>> >
>> > --larry eppley
>> >
>> > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 9:53 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> >> Larry Eppley wrote:
>> >> > Help!  I haven't printed anything since the upgrade!
>> >> >
>> >> > Fedora 1 Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl)
>> >> > KDE 3.2.1
>> >>
>> >> You need CUPS >= 1.0109  {i.e. version 1.1.9 or newer}
>> >>
>> >> What version are you using?
>> >>
>> >> If you used the Fedora RPM you should have:
>> >>
>> >> cups-1.1.19-13.i386.rpm
>> >>
>> >> Which should be OK.  I have no great ideas except that you can
>> >> reconfigure your printer settings.
>> >>
>> >> Did you install KDE from the RPMs or from source?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> JRT
>>
>> There seems to be a problem with your ghostscript configuration ...
>> Make sure you have in the file /usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/Fontmap
>>
>> something like
>>
>> %!
>> % See Fontmap.GS for the syntax of real Fontmap files.
>> (/etc/fonts/Fontmap) .runlibfile
>> (Fontmap.GS) .runlibfile
>>
>> Marian
>>
>  Thanks so much.
> 
> That file (Fontmap) was empty. Wonder how that happened?
> At least now kprinter seems to work.  I'm not totally sure about all of
> the
> font choices, but I can work on that.  Do kde-generated pdf's always look
> anti- aliased when viewed through acrobat reader.  They seem to look
> better in xpdf, etc.
> 
> thanks again,
> larry

Glad to help. I was in the same situation a few weeks ago ...
When updating your KDE, this file is overwritten by some obscure reason with
an empty one ...
Be sure to check it when you update again ...

Marian

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