i tried the fontpath variables (as well as copying the fonts to the existing font directory, but no luck, I've read that Cups does support ttf, but no info on how. The gimp print driver worked great, is the quality of the foomatic driver the same as the cups driver? On a better note, i'm about to upload K-Epson Tools onto cooker, if anyone wants the binary rpm, you can get it .. http://www.tecpronet.com/linux/kepsontools-0.1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm source at http://www.tecpronet.com/linux/kepsontools-0.1.2-1mdk.src.rpm Regards Ali On Monday 20 November 2000 12:12 am, you wrote: > > There are two possibilities: > > 1. In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf there is a "FontPath" variable, try to enter > directories there with the fonts you need. I don't know whether this > helps, it is possible that the CUPS renderer (which is written to work > under nearly every Unix) does not support TrueType fonts. > > 2. Use the "CUPS+GIMP-Print" (they use the CUPS renderer) drivers only > for photos and graphics, install a second queue for your printer where > you use the "Foomatic + stp-4.0 (GIMP-Print)" driver. This queue will > use the original GhostScript and print exactly how "gv" displays the > file on the screen. So this is the best driver for office printing > (documents with text). > > Till > > mail wrote: > > Hie > > > > I've been having problems printing true type fonts in Mandrake 7.2 > > > > After playing around with it, I got ghostscript to display the fonts > > correctly in ghostview. > > > > I realise now that CUPS uses its own renderer, and I have tried many > > times to get CUPS to print my fonts, I've added all the aliases for KWord > > in /usr/share/cups/pstoraster/Fontmap. Now atleast Zapf Chancery prints > > proplerly but no true types. > > > > I've tried copying the fonts to /usr/share/cups/fonts .. but then cups > > refuses to print altogether. > > > > So .. questions is ... where to from here .. how can I can cups to print > > using my fonts (ttf) ? ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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