2003-Dec-05

Using korganizer to print preview failed. It was running gs like:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dNODISPLAY ps2ai.ps print.ps

Running that manually has errors like:

Error: /invalidfont in findfont
Operand stack:
Courier   Font   Courier   329525   Courier   --nostringval--   Courier
NimbusMonL-Regu   (NimbusMonL-Regu)   NimbusMonL-Regu   (NimbusMonL-Regu)
NimbusMonL-Regu
Execution stack:
...
ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

My fix was to make a symlink from /usr/X11R6/share/ghostscript/fonts to /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts. I used strace to see where it was looking. Also "gs -h" will show the fonts it looks for.

Printing to DeskJet was all gray, black or random garbage. Using CUPS switched from "new" driver back to older, original and it worked.

Print preview and printing from korganizer still broken due to some mismatched problems (probably due to where I installed everything), but printing via CUPS (using lpr) works fine with Mozilla and Abiword.

Made packages for yp-tools, ypserv, and ypbind and imported to pkgsrc. None would build under NetBSD, although thay are said to support various operating systems.