On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 09:54, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:36:49AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > > > The only problem now is that printing isn't working or at least it isn't > > working for my browsers. Printing works for pdf files and for most > > postscript files and text files. However, when I use Konqueror or Opera > > to print a web page the printer seems to choke on the amount of data > > being sent. I printed to a file and the file seems to have the fonts > > embedded. Apparently the printing system in KDE seems to think that it > > needs to embed these new truetype fonts into the postscript files it > > sends to the printer. > > The first question to ask is what would you have expected it do? Your printer, > by the sounds of it, does not have truetype fonts in it. So, if you want an > accurate printout, the font definitions *have* to be sent to the printer. > Anything else is an approximation. > > > I'd like to be able to print with the truetype fonts. > > You've got two choices: > 1) get a printer that has built-in truetype fonts > 2) download the font definitions to the printer. > > Welcome to the wonderful world of display vs printouts... > Except that this printer works just fine as a postscript printer with Windows 95/98/NT/2K. I'm not positive about this, but wouldn't the printer have problems with large files with Windows too? Since it's not having problems with Windows it seems to me that the printer must have truetype fonts. How does the KDE printing system know whether it needs to download the font definitions or not? > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Carl D. Blake Director of Engineering Boeckeler Instruments, Inc. 4650 S. Butterfield Dr. Tucson, AZ 85714
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