Subject: Re: postscript fonts?
From: TimY (timy@darkhorse.com)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 19:17:24 EDT
Try this, instead of doing destination printer in the print dialogue
box choose file. Then goto the 'save as' options. Select postscript
level 1, binary data, and include ALL fonts. Then save the file out
as a postscript file. It will end in .ps. Then use a program to
download the file to the printer spooler you have on the linux box.
Or mount the spool directory and then when you save the postscript
print file you can save it directly to the spool directory. If you
do indeed have a font problem this should print fine. If it still
prints bad then something else is wrong. Basically you are printing
to a binary postscript file with all the fonts included. It works
real good for trouble shooting.
Later,
Tim Yardley
>I seem to have problems with printing postscript files.
>
>A user today tried to print a one page Quark file from him Mac and it spit
>out a ton of pages with hearts and smileys on the first line. The rest
>was blank. I am not sure what went wrong.
>
>I looked at the error log and nothing is mentioned in there. What our
>best guess is at this point is that we are missing postscript fonts on the
>Unix Spooler (FreeBSD)
>
>Here is my config...
>
>/etc/printcap
>
>laser|lp|HP LaserJet on AppleTalk:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/laser:\
> :rp=raw:\
> :rm=207.7.33.254:\
> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:pw#80:hl:\
> :pd=/usr/local/etc/HPLJ5SIM1.PPD:
>
>/usr/local/etc/papd.conf
>
>laser:\
> :pr=laser:op=laser:\
> :pd=/usr/local/etc/HPLJ5SIM1.PPD:
>
>I have the PPD set redundantly, and have not determined yet where it
>should be. I just have not messed with it too much since it start to work
>to at least print the MS Word files they wanted to print.
>
>But now Quark seems to be unhappy. What can I do? Do I need install some
>fonts or a filter? Should I use this filter?
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/print/lprps-letter/pkg/DESCR
>
>Please help if you can. I am pretty helpless here.
>
>Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
>projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
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