[newbie] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1

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-Reg

[newbie] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1

I've been spending a lot time trying to fix the character spacing problem with kde. It seems to boil down to fontmapping , meaning what kde thinks a font name should be and what ghostscript fonts thinks the fontname should be are sometimes two different things. So when, for arguements sake, mozil