From kde Wed Jul 28 19:42:38 2004 From: Marc Heyvaert Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:42:38 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] printing to file (PDF) with KPrinter Message-Id: <20040728194238.10167.qmail () web41510 ! mail ! yahoo ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=109104381500425 Hello James Thanks for your answer, it is full of info and things for me to try out... Unfortunately when I was testing I crashed my system, and the only way out -after a couple of day of trying to recover- was a complete reinstall :( What I did was probably silly, but I was truely amazed that it was so easy to completely screw up my system. I disabled all fonts with configuration centre except Type 1 fonts. Then I tested somewhat. Then I re-enabled the truetype fonts and I tested some more. Then I decided to call it a day and switched of my machine, without re-enabeling the other fonts, some of which were probably my system fonts. The next day I had a text only system. The X-server kept crashing. Complaining about not recognising my AGP bridge! I tried to recover form this for a couple of days, but had to give up. Anyway. This is where I am now. I use CUPS as a printing system. The problem of printing quality output to PDF files is something that I want to solve for ordinary users (it's part of a hands-on manual for KOffice). So this means that patching Qt is out of the question. So this is where I am now : Using Type 1 fonts is ok => no problem. Using Truetype fonts these fonts are embedded as bitmaps. It looks bad, but you can improve on this by setting the resolution to a higher number. Standard it is on 300 dpi, so you have a really bad staircase effect when you magnify in Acrobat. When you set it to 2400 it really looks ok to me even with magnification to high %. I suppose that for a reasonbable quality printed output 600 dpi or 1200 dpi could be sufficient. But I'm still testing this. Type 3 fonts (I sometimes get these in my pdf, still have to find out where they come from) and the bitmaps look not too good in Acrobat 4 and 5. But With acrobat 6 it is a lot better I think. This is just a conclusion that I draw from looking at the output on my Windows PC? I am starting tests now of converting tt fonts to Type one with tt2pt1. Perhaps you have something to say about this route? --- James Richard Tyrer wrote: > > Unfortunately, the Qt PostScript driver will not > embed TrueType fonts as Type42 > so if you embed TrueType fonts with any KDE > application and make a PDF, the > TrueType fonts will not be scalable and will look > BAD. > Let's hope things will be better in Qt4, he? > > > so I added that to the .bashrc file in my home dir > > That should probably work, but it should really be > in a: "/etc/profile.d/*.sh" > script (for Linux and anything that supports > 'profile.d' scripts). > People keep telling me this, but my SuSE install has big warnings of not editing these files in the comments of all of them. I set all kind of stuff in .bashrc, works fine? But perhaps it is bad... Thanks for all the advice and help! Marc __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.