[newbie] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1

[John Richard Smith]

I've been spending a lot time trying to fix the character spacing 
problem with kde.

According to my M9.1
/usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib/Fontmap.GS
and,
/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap
have Helvetica  mapped like this,

/Helvetica                                       /NimbusSanL-Regu       ;
/Helvetica-Oblique                        /NimbusSanL-ReguItal  ;
/Helvetica-Bold                             /NimbusSanL-Bold    ;
/Helvetica-BoldOblique                /NimbusSanL-BoldItal      ;
/Helvetica-Narrow                        /NimbusSanL-ReguCond   ;
/Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique         /NimbusSanL-ReguCondItal      ;
/Helvetica-Narrow-Bold              /NimbusSanL-BoldCond        ;
/Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique /NimbusSanL-BoldCondItal  ;
But , an old M8.1 OS of mine also had an identicle mapping.

So , to my mind that suggests nothing particularly wrong here with 
the font mapping.

I might add M8.1 's KDE using Helvetica font gets it's printing 
correct, printing to same model printer using Helvetica,
of printer, no problems at all with character spacing there.

As far as I can see at the moment the problem must be the different 
versions of ghostscript.
M9.1 uses Ghostscript 7.05, whereas M8.1 uses Ghostscript 6.51 , 
unless there is something
else that effects ghostscript performance, like additional 
libraries that I don't know about.



John

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