Re: Hebrew printing from KWord
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: For the rest of us, this is what I did to solve the problem: Run the kcontrol, and go to Font Installer (it's under System Administration). Switch to administrator mode. On settings, Check (under AFMs) Generate with, and select iso8859-8. Make sure both TrueType and Type1 are checked. Go back to Fonts, and click the box that opens the directory where your fonts are installed. Go to kword, and marvel at the fact that it will now print Hebrew. Very wonderful... except my RH8.0 with KDE3.1 from the aptget for rpm repository (see sourceforge) does not include this font installer. Is it a separate package? Can it be called from the command line? While we are at this, is there any sane way to make the system arrange the k menu in a less RedHat/Gnome centric way? (yeah, I could redo the entire hierarchy, but next upgrade, the whole thing has to be redone, especially as apps sometimes change names, plus I don't want to lose the automatic inclusion in menu of rpm installed package) Arie -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hebrew printing from KWord
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:48, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Someone claimed at the time that KDE is supposed to have this magical ability to convert TTF to Type-1 for printing purposes, but noone could give me any clue as to how to control this feature, and how to debug it. KDE's KControl has a kcm module called 'Font Installer' which does not convert TTF to Type1, but it does create AFM files for TTF file it installs. Mandrake's drakfont utility does convert TTF files to Type-1 (and then goes ahead and installs both version - beats me why). Anyway, sadly I cannot help with KWord hebrew printing - my system (Mandrake 9.1RC2) prints hebrew out of the box. -- Oded ::.. I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it. -- English Professor = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hebrew printing from KWord
Oded Arbel wrote: KDE's KControl has a kcm module called 'Font Installer' which does not convert TTF to Type1, but it does create AFM files for TTF file it installs. Mandrake's drakfont utility does convert TTF files to Type-1 (and then goes ahead and installs both version - beats me why). THANK YOU!!! Anyway, sadly I cannot help with KWord hebrew printing - my system (Mandrake 9.1RC2) prints hebrew out of the box. That's too bad for you. For the rest of us, this is what I did to solve the problem: Run the kcontrol, and go to Font Installer (it's under System Administration). Switch to administrator mode. On settings, Check (under AFMs) Generate with, and select iso8859-8. Make sure both TrueType and Type1 are checked. Go back to Fonts, and click the box that opens the directory where your fonts are installed. Go to kword, and marvel at the fact that it will now print Hebrew. Oded - thanks very very much. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hebrew printing from KWord
I checked, and this setting was already enabled. What now? On Monday 24 March 2003 19:58, shlomo solomon wrote: On the print dialog, click System options (at the bottom) and make sure you have chosen **Embed fonts in Postscript data when printinf**. I hope this helps. On Monday 24 March 2003 17:43, Arie Folger wrote: This came up a few times, but there seem to be two kinds of kword users on list, those who managed to make Hebrew print and those who didn't. I have enabled font embedding with qtconfig. I installed ms-webfonts Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman and Tahoma. I disabled font substitution of Arial by Helvetica, and ticked on the enable support for right to left languages. Yet, when printing or previewing print jobs, I get only the latin characters of the page, and the rest is whitespace. Did anybody who had the problem solve it? Arie -- It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
