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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: [kde-linux] HELP :-)  User installed fonts won't print
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2003-06-23 9:04:17
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:20:20AM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Thomas Zander wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:27:36PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >
> >>James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >>
> >>>Perhaps someone on this list would give this a try.
> >>>
> >>>However, I am afraid that this problem is not solvable with CUPS -- that 
> >>>it is a CUPS bug that ESP will have to address.
> >>
> >>I didn't mean to sound so pessimistic.  This fix should make system wide 
> >>fonts available to CUPS without embedding them.  Provided that they are 
> >>setup correctly for GhostScript.
> >
> >
> >You have no idea what you are talking about when you say that.
> >The art of font-embedding is not a very simple one.
> 
> Perhaps if you read it again, you would see that what I am talking about is 
> printing using GhostScript WITHOUT embedding the fonts in the PS data files.

Since when is ghostscript used for printing?

I guess you have to be a lot clearer in your communications since you seem
to have a bug in a very non-standard situation that you work around using
an even more non-standard fix.
Ok, it works; but I'm not sure its a fix, and the first step you should take
in making this a fix instead of a workaround is to describe a lot clearer
what you expect and what you get. (from reading it again; you are not acutally
printing, just previewing).

I also see you found a bug in the kcm where the behavior differs between the
basic and the advanced modes. I suggest you report that bug seperately so it
can be fixed.


> I am NOT in any way talking about embedding fonts.

If you are not; then the end-product (the postscript) will not print using
your font. So its not a fix.  If for some reason you get the right font on
paper, then I'm happy for you, but thats not going to help the majority
of users.

> with GNUlpr but I have not been able to try it with CUPS because the CUPS 
> GS device won't build with GCC-3.3.

Did you report that bug to them yet?

-- 
Thomas Zander

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