[cups.general] Can't print from KDE apps

[Helge Blischke]

Mark Thorp Duxbury wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I recently upgraded to KDE 3.2.3 and printing from KDE apps stopped
> working.  Other things - Mozilla, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, etc. - print
> fine.  When I try to print from any KDE app the print dialog works properly
> but ghostscript errors out (see below).  I don't know if the problem is in
> qt , CUPS, ghostscript, or somewhere else.  I have asked on the kde list some
> time ago  but not received a reply.  Anyway...
> 
> Here is the ghostscript error from var/log/cups/error_log:
> 
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] Error: /ioerror in --read--
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] Operand stack:
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] Verdana-Uni-00   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--         Font      488829      --nostringval--      ()
> (/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/)   --nostringval--   FontType
> --nostringval--
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] Execution stack:
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] %interp_exit   .runexec2
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1
> %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
> %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   %array_continue
> --nostringval--   5   3   %oparray_pop   6   3   %oparray_pop
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   9   4   %oparray_pop
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> %loop_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] Dictionary stack:
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] --dict:1071/1123(ro)(G)--
> --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:191/200(L)--   --dict:17/17(ro)(G)--
> --dict:1071/1123(ro)(G)--
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] Current allocation mode is local
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] Last OS error: 21
> D [25/Jul/2004:16:04:27 -0400] [Job 1478] GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable
> error, exit code 1
> 
> I am using (mostly) RH 8.0 with the following:
> 
>         CUPS 1.1.17
>         foomatic 2.0.2
>         ghostscript 7.07
>         KDE 3.2.3
>         qt 3.3.2
> 
> qt is set to not embed fonts.
> 
> I don't know what the ghostscript error above means so any help or suggestions
> would be much appreciated.
> 
The "/ioerror in --read--" means that Ghostscript couldn't read (or
continue to read)
the requested file. Check your configuration - is the directory where to
find fonts
correctly set, has it the necessary read/exec permissions, and what
about the permissions
of the font files in that directory?.

Moreover, the error code 21 should mean (Linux): "the file in question
is a directory",
but the error codes that gs gives are not always reliable.

Helge


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