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Bug 44205 - KDE Font Installer wipe out contents of ghostscript Fontmap file
Summary: KDE Font Installer wipe out contents of ghostscript Fontmap file
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] KDE (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo KDE team
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Reported: 2004-03-09 19:05 UTC by Chin Yee
Modified: 2005-01-11 12:42 UTC (History)
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Description Chin Yee 2004-03-09 19:05:28 UTC
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 in administrator mode 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 
needed fonts on the fly from the system fonts. That is the reason why Font 
Installer creates Fontmap in each font directory, right?  However, it should take into considerations of ths non-KDE application which rely on the ghostscript fonts for printing.
Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-11 12:42:12 UTC
This was http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75820,
it should be fixed now.