David, Thank you very much for highlighting this problem. I had no idea why I couldn't print or even preview from Kmail or Kwrite. I could print the test page from Yast and I could preview from Star Office. just couldn't do it from Kmail. i am not using CUPS, but rather lpd to print ot a Novell printer. My setup is SuSE 7.3 professional, with Xfree 4.2 and KDE 2.2.2. Hardware setup is AMD Athlon 1.4 GZ, ECS K7SEM motherboard, Adaptec ultra 160 scsi controller, IBM SCSI drive, (forget the model, but 18 GB) jaton Tnt2 card. Turning off anti-aliasing, the printing and preview feature work fine. with anti-aliasing on, can't print or preview from Kmail or Kwrite. The printer is a HP4100 connected to a Novell server. It has Postcript built in, so it is configured a a generic Postscript Level 2 printer. Works great with anitaliasing turned off. Mike On Friday 08 February 2002 21:02, David Herman wrote:
Awhile back I posted this problem;
I was able to print the cups printer test pages from YaST2 and KControlCenter but if I tried printing from kwrite or kmail a new process would start that used all available cpu time.
the process was
(all on one line in kpm) gs -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE --r300x300 -sDEVICE-cdj550 -dBitsPerPixel=3 -sOutputFile=|cat >&3 -
After a couple of re-installs I think I tracked the problem down. If I'm right then I can't believe nobody else on the list has had this problem.
I think there may be a buggy interaction between ghostscript and the anti-alias fonts setting in KDE. If I set Anti-Aliasing to "on" in KDE then I can't print from kwrite or kmail ( I get the cpu hog gs process).
If I turn Anti-Aliasing "off" and restart the x server then printing works as expected.
Can someone verify this behavior or disprove it on their machine?
I use SuSE7.2 pro w/ the must recent kde (2.2.2) & x-free86 (4.2) files from suse
thanks dave
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