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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Printing "strange" fonts
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-09-01 11:48:25
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On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Leon Widdershoven wrote:
>Hi,
>
>could anyone tell me if printing strange fonts (defined as fonts
>not available in the printer ROM) is supported for koffice
>applications?
>
>I try to print something from killustrator, but the fonts are
>replaced by real boring ones. I'd like to know whether this
>is due to erroneous configuartion by me, a missing feature
>in Qt, or a missing feature in KDE.
>
>The killustrator I use now is a KDE 1.1.1 version, Qt is at 1.44.
>
>Could it be that at Qt2, KDE2, KOffice(KDE2) this is 
>implemented?

As printing is done using postscript only fonts which are also
available as postscript fonts on your sestem can be printed. All other fonts
(e.g. TrueType) are replaced by some postscript fonts for printing, so you get
a different result. Printing is really a pain under Unix :-((

--
Reggie

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