This week I took delivery of a Brother MFC-L8930CDW multi-function printer, scanner, copier, FAX (who uses that?), etc. to replace a worn out Dell MFD. All is good except I discovered that printing a PDF generated by gropdf with an embedded PFA font is not handled by the printer. The printer substitutes what I assume is the other font the document uses. From what I can find, it appears this printer does not support Post Script directly.
The PFA in question, DS Luthersche Titel (called with the '.fam LF' request) is locally installed using Peter Schaffter's install-font script. It is also installed as a True Type font for my user and is accessible from LibreOffice, et. al. Using the font in LibreOffice results in proper printing of the font styled text. This leads me to question how the font is embedded and I assume the answer will be as a PS font which, apparently, my printer doesn't understand. However, the document also includes ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book (called with the '.fam A' request) which is apparently embedded in a manner that is recognized by the printer. I have observed this result with both gropdf of both Groff 1.22.4 and 1.23.0 on Debian 12 and 13 respectively. If needed I can provide a source file and the resulting PDF. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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