Well, ugh. I looked through the available fonts and I guess I'll settle on some fonts that still look OK in X. I can tell this is a difficult problem. Thanks for the info. On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 11:39, Ed Wilts wrote: > 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 -- Carl D. Blake Director of Engineering Boeckeler Instruments, Inc. 4650 S. Butterfield Dr. Tucson, AZ 85714
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