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

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Aug 24 05:05:33 PDT 2006


Michael Sweet wrote:
> Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> *Or* set the FontPath directive in cupsd.conf... :)
> 

This directive's value gets into CUPS_FONTPATH, AFAIK, but
what about GS_FONTPATH?

Or does EPS-gs honour CUPS_FONTPATH?

Helge

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