Re: Printing TT fonts from KDE Apps
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 March 2003 15:34, Jens Benecke wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 01:07:59PM -0500, Bruce wrote: My problem is that truetype fonts, when used in KDE apps, display properly (antialiased or not), but, depending on which app I am printing from, either print out as helvetica (or something similar), or as jagged bitmaps reminiscent of Windows 2.2 without ATM (for those of you who recall the late 80's). Hi, I have the opposite problem. Printing from KDE is fine and works beautifully, but printing from OOo into a PS file, and converting this PS file into PDF, makes the PDF huge (we're talking about 1-2MB for a single page file without graphics), and the fonts look like they've been compressed with JPEG at quality level ultra low. When I print from OOo in Windows, into Acrobat, the resulting PDF is 10kb and the fonts look fine. (No matter what fonts I use, PDF built-ins are always fine, of course, but also Tahoma works). How can I change this? I need to be able to publish Office files as PDF. Did you try using kprinter as the generic printer in OO yet ? - -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. - Ralf Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fKMzu0nKi+w1Ky8RAkZKAKCJsCLSG21ht3O9D0wTcX9D23FRCACfS9ix m+LjUHJu4X263FQBsD6IuaI= =J51x -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Printing TT fonts from KDE Apps
How can I change this? I need to be able to publish Office files as PDF. Did you try using kprinter as the generic printer in OO yet ? As Ralf suggests, using kprinter as the output for OOo (and other non-KDE apps, such as Mozilla or Acrobat Reader) is probably your best bet; you can then print to any printer set up in KDE, including the Print to PDF function. I just did a test and a two-page OOo text document turned into a 4k PDF file. Here's how to set it up: 1. run spadmin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ cd /usr/lib/openoffice/program [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ./spadmin 2. Set up a printer; either edit the properties of the generic printer (if there), or set up a new one. 3. In the Select Command box, type: kprinter --stdin 4. Select your default paper size. 5. Click Test Page - the Kprinter dialogue should come up. Try it out, or cancel as you want. 6. Click on Default to make this the default printer, and click Close This also allows you to access any printers set up in kprinter without having to recreate them in OpenOffice. For Mozilla, just put kprinter --stdin in the Printer Command box. For some apps, i.e. Acrobat Reader, you just need kprinter, without the --stdin. By the way, my problem with TT fonts (at least the problem with all TT fonts printing as Helvetica) seemed to be solved by selecting Embed Fonts in Postscript Data in the system options in Kprinter; the blocky fonts problem seemed to be specific to KCDLabel, and I solved that by using OOo Draw to create my CD labels - which worked great. Bruce
Printing TT fonts from KDE Apps
I have looked through the recent posts about problems using truetype fonts in KDE, but am not entirely sure what the result was, or if my problem is caused by these issues. I am running KDE 3.1.1 from Ralf's debs, on a mixed Woody/Sid system. I haven't done any manual tweaking of configuration files (mostly because I don't know what I am doing), I just installed all the fonts from the KDE control panel font installer. My problem is that truetype fonts, when used in KDE apps, display properly (antialiased or not), but, depending on which app I am printing from, either print out as helvetica (or something similar), or as jagged bitmaps reminiscent of Windows 2.2 without ATM (for those of you who recall the late 80's). The problem is only with KDE apps; TT fonts print fine from OpenOffice - even when piped through kprinter (I use kprinter --stdin as the print command for OO, Mozilla, Acrobat Reader, etc.). If I print a sample of 5 TT fonts from KWord, all but courier will print as helvetica. It looks as though in this case, some decision is made by the system I can't print these fonts, so I am going to default to helvetica. Printing to a PS file looks perfect, but then printing the file to paper will also map everything to helvetica. For other programs, such as KCDLabel, the fonts print out as jagged bitmaps. The decision made by the system here seems to be I can't print these fonts, so I am going to convert them to terrible looking bitmaps. Interestingly, for kcdlabel, if I print the label to a PS file, it looks the same as when printed - jagged bitmaps. The following packages are installed: defoma 0.11.0 fontconfig 2.1.92-2 libfreetype62.1.3+2.1.4rc2-3 Apologies if this has been answered, but if it was I don't know enough about how font servers work to figure it out. Bruce
Re: Printing TT fonts from KDE Apps
Le Dimanche 16 Mars 2003 19:07, Bruce a écrit : I had also problem printing from Konqueror with screwed TT fonts. Finally, I found that setting in Kprinter the option 'Embed fonts in Postscript when printing' solved my problem. Maybe, you should try that. Cheers, Charles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Printing TT fonts from KDE Apps
After mucking about with things a bit more, and uninstalling and reinstalling all truetype fonts using the KDE Font Installer, truetype fonts now print fine from KWord. However, KCDLabel still only will print the rough bitmaps. I am guessing this may be a bug in kcdlabel, so will look into that. Bruce
Re: Printing TT fonts from KDE Apps - Solved(?)
After mucking about with things a bit more, i.e., uninstalling and reinstalling all truetype fonts using the KDE Font Installer, truetype fonts now print fine from KWord. However, KCDLabel still only will print the rough bitmaps. I am guessing this may be a bug in kcdlabel, so will look into that. Bruce
