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Re: Printing problem

Hi, Lauris!  Good news...the perl script worked!  Here was how I got
this to work:

1. Didn't have run-gnome-font-install, so got one from tarball and moved
to /opt/gnome/share/fonts, as suggested.
2. Didn't have adobe-urw.font, so got it from tarball and put it in
/opt/gnome/share/fonts, as suggested.
3. Added /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW to the script, as suggested.
4. Ran the command in a modified format as

        perl /opt/gnome/share/fonts/run-gnome-font-install \
                /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-font/install /opt/gnome/share /opt/gnome/share

When I looked at this command in your previous email it dawned on me
that the /usr path you had is what most other distros use for Gnome (I
know Slackware uses it and I think so does Red Hat).  SuSE, however,
uses the /opt directory, at least in 7.0, not sure what they've done for
7.1 and 7.2.  Probably why uninstalling/reinstalling didn't work.  

Again, thank you!  I appreciate the time you've taken to help disect and
solve this problem.

Best,
Tim

On 30 Jul 2001 03:10:53 +0200, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:

Hello Tim!

On 28 Jul 2001 22:28:24 -0400, Tim Boring wrote:

Hello, Lauris!  I've attached my fontmap file to this message...don't
have a fontmap2, though.  I don't know if this seems odd, but I do have
both the freetype and freetype2 packages installed (the former from SuSE
the latter from Ximian).


That's OK. gnome-print <= 0.25 uses fontmap, >=0.26 uses fontmap2, so
the latter will only be present, if you have installed later gnome-print
version.
FreeType is not used by current stable gnome-print (neither 0.25 nor
0.29).


Just to make sure we're both talking about the same thing: Gnumeric does
print text on the screen...I've got several spreadsheets that I can add
data to and manipulate without any problem.  But, if I send that same
spreadsheet to the printer, that's when no text prints out on a sheet of
paper.


I understand. The problem is, that fonts you see on screen while editing
come from X (X font server), the ones you should see on print-preview
and paper, have to be found separately (because X font system is very
crappy and cannot be used for finding printable fonts).
fontmap file is simple database, mapping font files to names, so these
files can be used read data necessary for printing.

OK, analysis:

From your fontmap file I see, that there are no entries for common

PostScript
fonts (Helvetica, Times, Courier). Gnumeric defaults to Helvetica, so
without such font, it cannot print much.
Helvetica is practically the same font as "Nimbus Sans L", but
gnome-print has
to have afm file for helvetica, and also know, that given font has to be
aliased.
You URW Type1 fonts seem to reside in:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW
All released gnome-print versions seek for aliased base PostScript fonts
from ghostscript include path.
For some reason, run-gnome-font-install script cannot determine, that
abovementioned directory is ghostscript include path, and fails to
make necessary font aliases.
This is most probably packaging bug.

What to do:
1. Check, whether there is run-gnome-font-install in /usr/share/fonts
   If it is not, you have to get one from gnome-print-0.25 tarball.
2. Check, whether there is adobe-urw.font in /usr/share/fonts.
   If not, you can find one from tarball also.
3. Add '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW' to the start of script (you see,
   there are many additional directories listed, just add one more). The
   idea is to not rely on ghostscript for finding font path, but add
   as many default ones, as possible.
4. Save a copy of your existing /usr/share/fonts/fontmap
5. Run command:

   perl /usr/share/fonts/run-gnome-font-install \
        /usr/bin/gnome-font-install /usr/share /usr/share

6. Check, whether the new fontmap file have entries for Helvetica etc.
7. If yes, gnumeric should print
   If no, send me the output of the script above

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski


Thanks for looking into this! Please let me know if any additional info
would help (not much here that's top secret! ;-) ).

Best,
Tim


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
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