On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:09:04AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > Except that this printer works just fine as a postscript printer with > Windows 95/98/NT/2K. I'm not positive about this, but wouldn't the > printer have problems with large files with Windows too? Since it's not > having problems with Windows it seems to me that the printer must have > truetype fonts. How does the KDE printing system know whether it needs > to download the font definitions or not?
Well, Windows cheats. It doesn't actually print TrueType as you requested. It will do a translation of TrueType fonts to comparable PostScript fonts. For example, Arial could become Times New Roman. There was a *long* discussion on the Mandrake cooker lists a year or two back about KDE printing - a lot of the CUPS work is done by a Mandrake employee, Till Kamppeter, IIRC. How solvable this problem is today I don't know - I haven't visited this issue in quite a while. I do know that the next major release of KDE was going to have a significant overhaul of the printing subsystem to solve problems like what you're having, and to give all the applications true CUPS print requestors more in line of what you're used to seeing with Windows. Ghostscript apparently allows the printing of TrueType fonts, but I don't know how this is done which specific packages you'll need. I'd probably start by posting at http://www.linuxprinting.org/newsportal/. You'll find Till there along with a bunch of other people who really know how the printing stuff works. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
