In message <200507080820.26833.mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>, Mark Davies writes:
>On Friday 08 July 2005 06:06, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> >On Thu Jul 07, 2005 at 10:01:53AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> >> Is anyone successfully using print/acroread7?  When I invoke it, I get
>> >> a lot of gdkpixbuf errors such as these:
>> >>
>> >>   (acroread:8282): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader:
>
>> >I had the same issue on current with Xfree86.  I found that during a
>> >postinstall of suse_gtk2-9.1nb3 there were errors and the following
>> >file was either scrambled or not created:
>> >
>> >/usr/pkg/emul/linux/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
>
>Yes thats the actual problem.  For some reason (linux emulation problem?) this
> 
>file is not created properly on some (recent?) NetBSD's.  It worked for me on 
>2.99.10 and others confirmed it working on 2 while the people that have 
>problems seem to be on 3.0_BETA or current.
>
>> Anyway, that has solved the gdk error message problem, but I'm still
>> being told there are no fonts found, even after running
>> 'fc-cache --force' (and the same for emul/linux.../fc-cache).
>
>That may be an xorg only problem.  Try setting PSRESOURCEPATH explicitly to 
>the paths where your type1 and ttf fonts are.
>

Yup, found the problem: /usr/pkg/emul/linux/etc/fonts/fonts.conf listed 
only /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.  My bypass was to add
/usr/pkg/xorg/lib/X11/fonts to local.conf.

I'll send-pr this one; I assume that someone else has done a send-pr on 
the gdk-pixbuf issue.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb