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Bug 164173 - Administrator privileges required to get embedded fonts
Administrator privileges required to get embedded fonts
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-print
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
CVS
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-15 17:37 UTC by Hans Breuer
Modified: 2005-01-28 01:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (1.55 KB, patch)
2005-01-28 00:58 UTC, Dominic Lachowicz 		none Details | Review

Description Hans Breuer 2005-01-15 17:37:31 UTC 
Nowadays even on windoze it is possible to work without
'root' privileges [and one should certainly do so given
the other security risks;-]

Most programs (including The Gimp and Dia) are working
fine with dropped rights. But when using Dia's gnome-print
exporter there is an issue with temporary files created
at some place where I am not allowed to write as 'normal
user'. It works fine as Administrator though.

?-Warning: Can't open "\sno."
?-Warning: Could not parse TrueType font from \sno.

Could not embed font TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT
?-Warning: Could not embed font TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT, using Times-Roman
instead.
?-Warning: Can't open "\sno.1"
?-Warning: Could not parse TrueType font from \sno.1

Could not embed font TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT
?-Warning: Could not embed font TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, using Times-Roman inst
ead.
?-Warning: Can't open "\sno.2"
?-Warning: Could not parse TrueType font from \sno.2

Could not embed font TimesNewRomanPSMT
?-Warning: Could not embed font TimesNewRomanPSMT, using Times-Roman instead.
?-Warning: Can't open "\sno.3"
?-Warning: Could not parse TrueType font from \sno.3

Could not embed font Verdana
?-Warning: Could not embed font Verdana, using Times-Roman instead.
?-Warning: Can't open "\sno.4"
?-Warning: Could not parse TrueType font from \sno.4

Could not embed font Verdana-Bold
?-Warning: Could not embed font Verdana-Bold, using Times-Roman instead.
Comment 1 Dominic Lachowicz 2005-01-28 00:54:31 UTC 
it looks like we're running into problems in gnome-print-tt-subset.c when we
call tmpnam(). attaching patch.
Comment 2 Dominic Lachowicz 2005-01-28 00:58:48 UTC 
Created attachment 36633 [details] [review]
patch

this has all of the same warts and race conditions as tmpnam(), except that it
creates the temporary file in a proper temp directory, even on windows. it
should fix this bug.

abiword had the same problem - tmpnam() would put files in C:\, which is bad.
Comment 3 Dominic Lachowicz 2005-01-28 01:06:25 UTC 
patch applied and a few memleaks plugged.