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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: I can't print using kword.
From:       Julien Olivier <julo () altern ! org>
Date:       2001-11-26 8:39:01
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Sorry but for me, neither Courier nor Utopia prints (nor previews) correctly. 
Do you want me to send you a screenshot or the document ?

Le Dimanche 25 Novembre 2001 18:58, Stephan Hachinger a écrit :
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julien Olivier" <julo@altern.org>
> To: <koffice@mail.kde.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 1:12 PM
> Subject: I can't print using kword.
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Sorry to insist but I still can't print with kword. And nobody seems to
>
> have
>
> > the sames problems as I do.
> >
> > Any document I try to print with kword lacks lines or has mixed letters.
> >
> > I can reproduce this printing problem only with kword.
> >
> > If I embed the koffice document into kspread, it prints perfectly !
> >
> > I'm using KDE-2.2.2 / Koffice 1.1 on Mandrake 8.1 (I installed KDE
>
> Mandrake
>
> > RPMs yesterday) and had the same problem with KDE-2.2.1 / Koffice 1.1.
> >
> > The font I use comes from Windows 2000. It's Verdana TTF. I don't have
> > the same problem on my other PC (exactly same distribution /
> > configuration).
>
> So,
>
> > I imagine it comes from the font. But the fact the problem exists only
>
> using
>
> > kword shows that the problem is font-related but is due to kword, not to
>
> the
>
> > font. Maybe kword uses a special ps rendere that isn't used in kspread...
>
> so
>
> > maybe it's a QT bug... I don't know.
> >
> > I don't know enough in QT/KDE programming to solve the problem myself.
> > So,
>
> I
>
> > hope someone will be able to find the problem and fix it for KDE-3
>
> release.
>
> > --
> > Julien Olivier
>
> Yeah, isn't that the bug which was discussed a lot some days before ("kword
> prints out with letters squashed together" or so)? Embedding other
> documents into the kword doc or vice versa solves it... Hmm, there are only
> some people who have this problem, but Koffice 1.1.1 will solve it. For the
> meantime: There are really some fonts which print out correctly:
>
> --- Copied message ---
>
> Hi Ralph:
>
>  I too have SuSE 7.3. Try using the fonts Courier or Utopia. These two
> fonts work ok.
>
>
>  Here is what I found by printing out various fonts in Kword. NOTE: It
> appears that most of these will print out in Kspread. However, if I
> remember correctly,  many are mapped to the same font. That is Terminal,
> Lucidabright,
> Nimbus mono l and Helvetica all print out as Helvetica.
>
> Fonts that print correctly:
>
> Bitstream Charter: fonts are normal in print preview but some lines of
> text are missing and embedded png's are not fully rendered. Hard copy
> is fine and bold words print correctly.
>
> Courier: print previews correctly and prints correctly. Bold words are
> printed correctly.
>
> Luciduxmonolucidux mono: Print previews correctly and prints hard
> copies correctly.
>
> Utopia: Some Lines are missing in print preview. hard copy print out is
> fine including bold words.
>
>
>
> Fonts that don't print preview correctly but do produce good hard
> copies with some text features missing.
>
> Fixed: print previews correctly with the exception that bold words are
> not displayed as bold. Also bold words in the Kword document are not
> bold, in the hard copy.
>
> Luciduxsanslucidux sans: Print preview has missing lines of text. Bold
> words are not displayed as bold in print preview nor are they bold on
> the hard copy. Rest of text is fine.
>
> Luciduxseriflucidux serif: Some lines of text missing and bold does not
> print in preview or on hard copy. Rest of text is fine.
>
>
>
> Fonts that have unacceptable corruptions:
>
> Bookman 1: fonts are correctly rendered but again, missing text lines.
> On actual print out bolded words are mangled.
>
> Century Schoolbook I: fonts are normal in print preview but lines of
> text are missing. Words in bold are mangled or compressed.
>
> Gothic 1: Text is compressed together, in print preview.
>
> Helvetica: Text is compressed together, in print preview.
>
> Lucida: Text is compressed together, in print preview.
>
> Lucidabright: Text is compressed together, in print preview.
>
> Lucidatypewriter: Text is compressed together, in print preview.
>
> New century schoolbook: Text is compressed together, in print preview.
>
> Nimbus mono l: Text is compressed together, in print preview.
>
> Terminal: Text is compressed together, in print preview.

-- 
Julien Olivier

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