[cups.general] Can't print bank statement from ar,test page fine.

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Aug 24 03:57:12 PDT 2006


Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 22:56 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>>Humm, I don't have a FONTPATH env var.  And from that logging I sent, it 
>>found the other variations on that font, apparently w/o any problems, so I 
>>guess I'm still puzzled as to what to do next Helge.
> 
> 
> The correct variable name is actually GS_FONTPATH, and it's not the
> GS_FONTPATH variable in your login environment that's important but the
> execution environment of ghostscript while processing the job.  For
> foomatic jobs on Fedora Core/Red Hat Enterprise Linux it gets set
> in /usr/bin/foomatic-gswrapper:
> 
> $ENV{'GS_FONTPATH'} = '/usr/share/fonts';
> 
> ..meaning that any fonts under '/usr/share/fonts' are allowed to be read
> by ghostscript.
> 
> Do you think there are other font paths that should be added?
> 
> Tim.
> */
> 

Yes, the environment variable is GS_FONTPATH. I reported gs' internal
system variable name by accident.

To set this variable reliably for use with CUPS, insert an appropriate
statement into your /etc/init.d/cups startup script.

Helge


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