Re: Printing problem

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ximian com>]

Hello!

If this is not top-secret ;) can you send me your fontmap/fontmap2 file?
What I can tell about your problem description:

a) gnumeric starts - there is Helvetica in fontmap
b) Helvetica is in fontmap - Helvetica .afm file is OK
c) No text is printed - gnome-print cannot find/open/read corresponding
   .pfb file

I have heard about various gnome-print problems with SuSE (probably due
to the fact, that its directory layout differs from redhat/madrake camp)
- but these have always disappeared by reinstalling gnome-print - so I
have not got an opportunity to debug these :-(

Btw. The lates gnome-print is 0.29, which should be quite solid. But
it has higher library version number (0.15) than gnome-print-0.25
(0.11),
so be default installing it does not help gnumeric from Ximian gnome.
You can try to get 0.25 tarball and install it. If problem disappears,
it is probably packaging one.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski

On 26 Jul 2001 23:59:08 -0400, Tim Boring wrote:
> Yep...no fontmap2 but do have a ~/share/fonts/fontmap file.  The version
> of gnprint I've got installed is 0.25...it came with Ximian Gnome 1.4.
> And Gnumeric is v0.67...also installed w/ XG1.4.
>
> Is there a more recent version of gnome-print?  I'll try to install it
> this weekend, if so.  
>
> As for the fonts, I've got both the standard AND optional ghostscript
> fonts installed from the SuSE7.0 distro.  Out of curiosity I checked the
> version of those packages against the updates on SuSE's site and I've
> got the most recent versions (well, at least the most recent from SuSE).
>
> Should I create rpms from source for gnome-print and gnumeric and see
> what that does?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
> On 26 Jul 2001 22:22:07 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:45:01PM -0400, Tim Boring wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > When I try to preview a spreadsheet before printing it, the text appears
> > > as small squares, and when I print it no text prints.  It will print
> > > lines or shaded cells...again, just no text.
> > >
> > > I pretty sure this is a problem with gnome-print.
> >
> > We've seen unreproducable reports of this before.  I'll bet that it
> > is related to the set of fonts you have installed.  Please ensure
> > that you have ghostscript's fonts installed on your system
> > and reinstall gnome-print.  Save a copy of your fontmap2 file before
> > you reinstall and forward a copy to Lauris & I.
> >
> > <prefix>/share/fonts/fontmap2
> >
> > If that file does not exist or is called fontmap then you are using
> > a stale version of gnomer-print (And gnumeric).
> >
> > Good Luck
> >     Jody