-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Boddie escreveu: > On Sunday 25 June 2006 12:12, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > >> Have you tried using TrueType fonts (like from Microsoft's Corefonts, such >> as Arial or Times New Roman). My plotting package Veusz creates postscript >> output which looks fine. I haven't heard of anyone complaining about >> low resolution fonts. > > TrueType fonts work fine for me. However, José seems to be having problems > with Arial and Lucida Sans. > Yes all the problems I am having is with truetype fonts, thats all im testing. >> There is a bug in ghostscript however, which means pdf files generated >> from qt3 lose some of their text, sigh... >> >> http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688760 > > Thanks for pointing out that bug report. It might explain some of the > problems I've seen with PDFs in an unrelated issue at work, and hopefully > your workaround for the problem will help with that. > > Perhaps José's problem is partly a result of Postscript to PDF conversion. > José, do you see the same problems when you produce Postscript files using > Arial and Lucida Sans? > > David Yes, it appends in direct printing, postcript generation (print to file) and printing to a pdf printer. The problem seems to be between qt postscript generator and ghostscript. Personnaly i think its a qt bug, speaking related to this blog post here: http://blogs.qtdeveloper.net/archives/2005/12/22/printing-and-wysiwyg/ I have found a mail sent to the kde lists that speaks about a similar problem here: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=109064343317685&w=2 The current situation its half resolved. If I run qtconfig and disable the font embedding, i can have great results with some fonts, Times New Roman, Lucida Sans and some others more, which for now resolves my problem by being able to print in at least 3 or 4 different fonts. But it still gives bad results with most of the fonts, wich i identified as being a qt problem, because the openoffice postscript generator whorks like a charm and also ghostscript used with other programms too. In the changes i made, mainly the bigger problem whas that my font path search in qtconfig whasnt configured, i added some truetype fonts folders to it andit can represent some fonts better than it whas but not all. :( This link http://www.geocities.com/mobrien_12/pdflinux.htm also give some clues as how the pdf and postscript generation whorks. What would be ideal its perhaps send raw data to the printer, which i dont know how to do it, because ghostscript behaves well embedding fonts in the postscript it generates, anlysing the qt postscript, it allways converts fonts fonts to type 2 and 3 which its not always good. I will still be investigating this and probably wil send a mail to th qt list and ask if someone had the same problems there. If the postscript generation is better in qt4 i will also probably start to convert my application to pyqt4, but for now the little skills i have are all turned to pyqt3. Thanks everyone for your help, and if anyone as more ideas they are welcomme. Best Regards, José David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEnrSTBdVvWvDxTXkRAoyOAJ9BLN9KXJCCTP7GiNKCXwrlyCut5gCZATQu cBBs1bQLgU15h0vtx4texD8= =l8WF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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