On 30 Jun 2005, at 14:30, Alec McAllister wrote: > The best bet might be to abandon the 8-bit fonts altogether. The font > called "Doulos SIL" (not to be confused with "SIL Doulos"!) is a Unicode > IPA font that works well for me, including with the text that you > mentioned on the website, which printed perfectly from OO 1.9.109 on > Windows XP.
Well, I have made great progress today. (No classes -- time to sit down and puzzle some of this out.) To review this issue, I have two computers, a Linux laptop (Ubuntu-64) and a Windows 2000 desktop. Both print fine to my Laserjet 5SiMx (genuine Adobe PS Level 2). The printer is on my home ethernet. On the Ubuntu laptop I have OOo 1.1.3. On the Windows computer I have StarOffice 7.0, patch 4. All applications on the Ubuntu laptop print just fine to the printer, except OOo. It won't print at all. I am sure the reason is because it insists on creating its own printer interface and doesn't know what CUPS is. The problem appears to be that it does not have the printer's IP address correct, as nothing happens at the printer when I send it a file. I have tried to fix this with spadmin, but spadmin loads and immediately crashes. The only way to print from OOo on the Ubuntu laptop is to export as PDF and then print from xpdf. However, when I do so, the characters appear correct on screen in both OOo 1.1.3 and in xpdf, but various characters are substituted at the printer, with disastrous results. >From StarOffice 7.0 on the Windows computer I can print directly to the printer. However, again, various characters are substituted for what appears on screen. I can export as PDF and print with Adobe Reader, but characters are still substituted, although usually fewer. Printing the PDF as image makes no difference. Since yesterday's panic at trying to get homework to print out, I have discovered a way to print correctly, although it is a total PITA and only a desperate stopgap. As I mentioned previously, I have various of these IPA fonts. Some characters print wacky in one character and some print wacky in another character. By using several fonts I can manage to get the whole thing to print accurately. But what a pain! However, this evening I finally had a breakthrough. I downloaded and installed the latest beta of 2.0 on the Windows computer. And guess what? Every single font is now printing perfectly! What I see on the screen is what prints. Finally! So now I need to install the latest beta of 2.0 on the Ubuntu laptop. Unfortunately, this is a much bigger challenge. OOo does not make it available as a .deb package -- only RPMs. I tried to convert them to .debs, but alien puked them all up. In Synaptic there are three 2.0 beta files listed, but all fail to install with an error message about missing files. I have searched everywhere, but cannot find a .deb package for the beta of 2.0. Considering my results on the Windows computer, getting the beta of 2.0 installed on the laptop will probably resolve all my problems. So if anyone knows where I can get a .deb package for the latest beta of 2.0, please let me know. (And bear in mind, that the Ubuntu laptop is 64-bit kernel.) Thanks to everyone for suggestions and help! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
