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Date:      Wed, 21 May 2003 22:27:53 -0500
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Printing Problem And A Permissions Problem
Message-ID:  <20030522032753.GA88983@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <3ECC304F.1000500@codysbooks.com>
References:  <3ECC304F.1000500@codysbooks.com>

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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.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net



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