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

[Helge Blischke]

Mark Thorp Duxbury wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 17 August 2004 07:35, Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
> > Well, I cannot determine what went wrong in some of your setup runs, but
> > it should be
> > fairly easy to solve the issue. As you say that only KDE apps show this
> > error, modify
> > your KDE environment as to define the environment variable GS_FONTPATH
> > to contain all these directories your fonts are in, e.g.
> > GS_FONTPATH="/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript:/usr/local/share/fonts/Tr
> >ueType" export GS_FONTPATH
> > (for sh, ksh, bash etc.).
> >
> > Helge
> 
> Thanks.  I'm setting that in a script in /etc/profile.d so it should be
> available universally.  Making sure...
> 
>    [mark at localhost mark]$ set | grep GS
>    GS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript:/usr/local/share/fonts/TrueType
>    GS_LIB=/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript:/usr/local/share/fonts/TrueType
> 
> But unfortunately the problem persists with the same error message I've been
> seeing.
> 
The stuff started by the rc urility usually does not read any profile
files unless
explicitely configured. Insert the definitions into your
/etc/init.d/cups and restart
cups (a SIGHUP won't be sufficient in this case).

Helge


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