From koffice  Thu Nov 08 19:38:29 2001
From: Kevin Anthoney <kanthoney () clara ! co ! uk>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 19:38:29 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Printing from KWord 1.1 (using KDE 2.2.1)
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Here's a clue. I've got the following in my XF86Config file:

    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/fatc/windows/fonts/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
#    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

If I uncomment the bottom two lines, the problem disappears. Of course, I get 
hideous fonts on screen. Nothing's ever easy :(

On Wednesday 07 Nov 2001 9:42 pm, Thomas Zander wrote:
> You are not the only one, I have seen a number of problems related to these
> fonts, altough you are the only one mentioning RH...
>
> Could you tell me;
> - which XFree you are using? (the control center has an information section
> where you can find out)
>   Also check if you have in your XF86Config (probably in /etc/X11/) these 2
> lines in the Section "Module"
>     Load        "type1"
>     Load        "freetype"
>
> - if you are using anti-aliased fonts. (in control center->look &
> feel->fonts) - how does printing work from a KDE text editor (Kate for
> example) ?  Don't forget to select the Helvetica font from its
> configuration dialog!
>
> If you have the time please try to install the excelent KFontInstaller,
> this will help you install additional fonts and can tell you things like
> the availability of .AFM files and other important stuff...
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfontinst/
>
> Let us know your findings please (via the koffice list)
>
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:29:36PM +0100, Eivind Trondsen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 November 2001 00:31, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 06 November 2001 15:31, Eivind Trondsen wrote:
> > > > We are experiencing the same thing (i guess). Both Print preview and
> > > > Print gives letters blurred together. Looks like some very bad
> > > > postscript code or something. This happens with both RH7.2 and
> > > > SuSE7.3 out of the box. I have SuSE here now with KDE2.2.1 and
> > > > KOffice 1.1
> > >
> > >  I too have this problem with documents using Helvetica font. If I
> > > switch to Courier, the problem goes away. I am using SuSE 7.3 (KDE
> > > 2.2.1; qt-2.3.1).
> >
> > Okay. I have the exact same setup. I played around with a lot of fonts,
> > and ibm-courir is the only one that works. Does anyone have a good
> > explanation?
> >
> > Eivind

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Kevin Anthoney
kanthoney@clara.co.uk