Back in the MetaCard days, I was told that problems like this were often
caused by the printer driver. If there's an update, I'd install it.
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On December 4, 2020 10:42:50 AM "Sean Cole \(Pi\) via use-livecode"
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Alas, I am still getting the same results with both duplicated and brand
new fields. Even in a whole new stack. I'm not getting very far with this.
What is making the text get so screwed up? Does anyone have any insight?
Thanks again, Richard.
Sean Cole
*Pi Digital *
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 06:42, Pi Digital via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
That’s a possibility. Interesting. I’ll give it a go when I’m more awake.
Thanks Richard
Sean Cole
Pi Digital
> On 4 Dec 2020, at 06:16, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> Sean Cole wrote:
>> I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs. No
>> matter which font or style I use I get occasional anomalies where
>> characters from words get placed over each other like a kerning issue
gone
>> mental.
>> Bad rendering:
>>
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v09vacw8x3873qh/Screenshot%202020-12-04%20at%2005.53.47.png?dl=0
>> Good rendering:
>>
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehbdofm3nusgzyh/Screenshot%202020-12-04%20at%2005.54.08.png?dl=0
>> It's very random. Sometimes it's ok. the next report will come out bad.
>> There's no real pattern I can identify. I've been going at it for a few
>> days trying different font types and styles but they are all very hit
and
>> miss. I can't work out if it is Cairo, Cups or something else. From the
>> print card dialogue I get the same issue. I'm so tired and frustrated
from
>> trying to sort it out. Anyone have a fix/workaround/suggestion?
>
> It's been a while since I've seen that, but when I did it was with an
older stack brought forward through many versions to v9.
>
> IIRC I replaced the fields that showed the issue one by one until the
problem went away.
>
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