On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:13, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> >
> > Once I removed all the font replacements for this printer, everything
> > works fine.
>
> How did you do this?

spadmin -> select the printer -> click properties -> select the "font 
replacement" tab -> uncheck "enable font replacement"

> > 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?

I think that this will not work, because users can add printers after setup, 
and they often do.

Also, the same problem affects all the non-latin scripts that arial etc 
support, such as cyrillic, greek, and arabic. So I think that this is not a 
Hebrew-only issue.

>
> > 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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