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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kword printing .....
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2001-07-04 12:24:54
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On Monday 02 July 2001 09:19, Mike Richardson wrote:
|   On Sunday 01 July 2001 22:43, Thorsten Schnebeck wrote:
|   > "Miscellaneous support". Next one after the tab is a "messy" character:
|   > KWord shows only a square and printing stops. Deleting all the
|   > "squares" printing is fine.
|   >
|   > Hope this helps
|
|   I couldn't get any improvements via Stylist, so I experimented with
| fonts; Fixed and Console worked, everything else gave the same squashed-up
| results. FWIW, after about 10-15 font changes, KDE locked solid and I had
| to kill the X server :(
|

You do not provide enough info.
Q:
-XFree86 version, distribution (RedHat's and Mandrake's XF 4.1 are very 
different, AFAIK)
-#xdpyinfo | grep RENDER
(RENDER- workin or not)
-are you logged as User or Root?
(AA doesn't work with Root, at least for me)
-QT version (I guess you have 2.3.0 or 2.3.1, but anyway)
-/etc/X11/fs/config
(part starting from 
# where to look for fonts
# Some of these are commented out, i.e. the TrueType and Type1
# directories in /usr/share, because they aren't forced to be
# installed alongside X.
#
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/WinFonts,
....
)
-/etc/X11/XftConfig
 (you should have it if you have RENDER extension running)
be sure that you have something like this (where /truetype has your TrueType 
fonts)
dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"

-GhostScript version  :-)
-Fontmap.GS
 (from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.00/lib/Fontmap.GS

Have I forgot something? Hope not :-)

From my experience, GS's default Fontmap.GS is completely broken - at least 
in cases when you need to print something else than 7-bit US ASCII chars.
But, fixing it is rather easy (while it is not really related to KDE)
Let me know if you want to see my one.

BTW: try attached file. it prints here _almost_ correctly (no Latin-2 chars), 
and some non-printing parts should be fixed in CVS.
Anyway, my testing shows that AbiWord, for example, can't handle second part 
of 256-char table. I mean these symbols:
------------
¢£¥§¨© ª «¬®°± ² ³ ´µ¶· ¸ ¹ º »¼½¾¿ ÀÁ ÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐ ÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß 
àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ 
------------
KWord handles it nicely. :-)

|
|   Mike

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