Hi Sivan,
Thanks for the excellent contribution.
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Sivan Toledo wrote:
>
> The Hebrew letters in an RTF document failed to print.
>
> This happens because the printer driver configuration (via spadmin) specifies
> a number of font replacements that replace a font with Hebrew, Arial in my
> case, with a printer-resident font with no Hebrew, Helvetica in my case.
>
> This problem probably affects not only Hebrew, but any non-latin text that
> these common truetype fonts support.
>
> Once I removed all the font replacements for this printer, everything works
> fine.
How did you do this?
>
> The easiest way to fix this is to avoid inserting any default font
> replacement rules into the printer configurations.
>
> The more complicated way is to modify the printer driver code so that it
> avoids the replacement if the document contains letters that are not in the
> Adobe standard latin glyph repertoire. This may cause harm in CJK locales
> where printer-resident fonts may actually contain CJK letters.
I think that it might be better just to modify the installation procedure
for the Hebrew OOo to remove the font replacements at setup time. Do you
think that this is a reasonable solution?
>
> At least, the hint to remove font replacement should be included in some FAQ.
We will add it to the README today.
BTW, we will be publishing the first version of the Hebrew readme file at
noon today.
Thanks,
- yba
>
> Sivan
>
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