Re: problem with kde's font handling
I installed a new user account on my box to see if my personal settings are causing KDE not to print TT fonts such as Times New Roman, and it didn't help. I can, however, print with non TT fonts such as Bitstream's serif font (called Times?). Anyway, so I tried to uninstall one problematic font, Times New Roman, from the systemwide settings, and reinstall it as a local font, and that didn't do it, either. So, I am left with the conclusion that somehow, on my system, for an as yet unknown reason, Fedora's KDE&Ghostscript dislikes some or all TT fonts and thus doesn't want to print them. Help! 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: problem with kde's font handling
On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:38, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > OpenOffice uses a rather independent fonts configuration. What about > gtk2 programs? What about abiword (uses Xft, but independently of > of gtk)? gnumeric? Abiword is OK, perfect with both Hebrew and English, although it doesn't handle niqud properly. > > * My locale includes ctype=he_IL.utf8 and thus I can print Hebrew from > > kde apps. > > try changing that to 'he_IL.UTF-8' , just in case the case matters here I had that originally, but once I upgraded to Fedora, KDE stopped to print Hebrew characters, so I guessed that the locale wasn't read properly. I did locale -a and saw that it is all lowercase and without dash, so I tried that and found out that Fedora likes its locales lowercased. What now? -- 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]
problem with kde's font handling
My fonts (incl. TT fonts from MS) seem properly installed, as a host of applications use them, yet, although I can display all kind of fonts in kde apps, they will only print in one font, no matter my settings. The font is an unidentified sans serif font (perhaps Arial, as I can also print Hebrew, and didn't install Culmus). OOo is will to print in other fonts, as well, although it get picky with Hebrew when printing directly. PDFs by OOo are always OK, whereas pdfs by KOffice have the same problems as the printed pages. In short: * I use kde 3.1.4 on fedora with the latest stable koffice (1.2.x). The fonts are those that are necessarily on the system plus some ms webfonts. OOo is 1.1.0-6. * All desired fonts can be used in just about any application on screen, so the fonts seem properly installed. * My locale includes ctype=he_IL.utf8 and thus I can print Hebrew from kde apps. * qtconfig was used to check embed fonts when printing. * Why won'r kde print with anything else then that sans serif font? * I wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (IIRC) about the OOo issues, but got no response yet. I am, however, not asking about it now, I merely mentioned it as it shows where the fonts do and where they don't work. My guess is that it may have something to do with the lack of afm files for the TT fonts, so that ghostscript can't handle it. Yet, the font directory with the TT fonts is recognized by the KDE font installer (installed as root), so those files should exist. OOo may use its own, ghostscript-independent system for generating the PDFs, which is why those are not affected. Thanks for any help, Arie Folger -- 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]
