Printing Problem And A Permissions Problem

[Glenn Johnson]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 07:05:03PM -0700, Scott Reese wrote:

> [please cc: me in any replies as I am not currently subscribed to
> questions.  Thank you.]
>
> I'm currently having two problems.  The most annoying issue is that
> my printing is now suddenly crippled.  I can *technically* print out
> anything I want, it just always comes out in a fixed width font,
> ignores formatting (i.e. bold, italics, specified fonts) and ends
> up all jumbled together.  Before I upgraded my ports (I believe
> ghostscript was updated), printing worked just fine.  I'm using
> cups and have already re-compiled and re-installed cups, cups-lpr,
> cups-pstoraster and ghostscript-gnu to no avail.  These things "just
> worked" before and now they do not.  Any ideas?

Ghostscript is the problem.  If you go back to ghostscript-gnu-7.05
printing will work.  I have filed a PR on this but have not heard any
feedback.

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Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net