Thanks Jacque, please see my answers below.
Bob Warren wrote:
> 1. In Rev Linux 2.6.1, can foreign symbols (with accents) be printed on
>> the printer or not?
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I asked about this. It raised more questions. In general, there
shouldn't be any problem. Portuguese is a standard western Linux font
and it should print correctly. If you are having trouble, they'd need to
know:
How are you printing? Are you printing the card using "open printing",
"print", "close printing", or are you using revPrintField or revPrintText?
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I am printing a card as in the following example:
on mouseUp
--set the printCommand to "lp %s" --(Prints to default printer over network in Ubuntu)
set the printCommand to "mv %s /home/bob/Desktop/output_print_file.ps" -- puts output in a file
open printing
print card "Card1"
close printing
end mouseUp
When there are no Portuguese symbols in the fields on this card, both methods (printing
directly to the printer or producing a Postscript file) work OK. Also, if I double-click
on the Postscript file, the program "Evince" displays the image of the card
correctly in Ubuntu.
However, if the fields on my card DO contain Portuguese symbols, neither method of printing works
sucessfully. If I double-click on the Postscript file, "Evince" cannot display it. (It
just shows the message "Loading" and just continues trying forever.)
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Does the text in the field display correctly? (I told them I assumed so.)
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Yes, it does.
But please note that I cannot type any text with accents into my card's fields
in Rev. I have to paste it from another source.
I am using an Ubuntu that has been installed in English. To type letters with
accents, I need to use a special keyboard sequence. This does of course work
fine in programs other than Rev.
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What is the name of the font you are using?
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I was originally using the Arial font in my fields, since the stack was
imported from Windows. But now I am using a simple test program, and making
changes to see what happens. I have tried not specifying a font at all for the
single field and 2 buttons in my test program (i.e. the default font is
presumed). I have just tried defining the font as Courier for these 3 controls.
The result is always the same. If there are only English characters in the
field, Evince displays the image of the Postscript file. If I paste characters
with accents into the field, Evince can no longer display the image of the
Postscript file.
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Are you setting the unicodeText of the field or just putting the text in
normally?
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I am just putting the text in normally. After reading the Help, I tried playing
around with unicodeText, but since I don't really know anything about the
subject, I gave up. Nothing worked.
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How is the printout corrupted? When you do a print job, in what way is
it incorrect?
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I don't get a printout unless I use English characters only. Then, it's
perfect. I can print directly to the printer on paper, and I can produce a
Postscript file which displays perfectly in the Evince program and can be
printed afterwards.
If I include characters with accents in the field of my test program, nothing
doing. The printer just sits there like an idiot, and the Evince program goes
around in circles, failing to display the Postscript file.
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