Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:47:15PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: [..] > I have these installed (BTW, the usherbrooke site that you said is not > an official site, it is actually a Debian mirror, listed on Debian > website): Oooops, oh ok. Yeah I can see the indic-fonts package: [

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-03 Thread H.S.
Chris Bannister wrote: A ps file is just a plain text file. Well, an image can also be made in to a gs file, which in turn is still a text file. What I am trying to say is that the fonts which appear weird to gs are probably being converted to an image in the ps file. Given what I wrote

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:18:45PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> How do you generate your .pdf compared with your .ps, or is it a menu choice, which unfortunately hides all the gory details. >>> From within OOo from a menu, it exports the odt file directly to PDF. >>> >

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:19:01PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: >>> I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing >>> "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so >>> never lo

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: How do you generate your .pdf compared with your .ps, or is it a menu choice, which unfortunately hides all the gory details. From within OOo from a menu, it exports the odt file directly to PDF. What happens if you generate your .pdf (which seems to include the font

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:19:01PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > >So you installed some ttfs, and if you print a .pdf all is ok, but if > >you print a .ps it isn't? > > Yes, that is pretty much it. > I use the following fon

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread H.S.
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which one

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing > "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so > never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which > one is it? So you i

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread David Fox
On 2/29/08, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I am trying to push Linux in a local community center (also trying > to convince them that the MS Windows they keep on install on all Go for it! I just came back from such an event - here in California there was a rather large, distributed insta

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread David Fox
On 2/29/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > like a cookiesheet in the oven: crack! It was replaced with the 486 in > 1994 (in the middle of exams at UofT). Lucky you. I waited until 1996 (basically until I could afford it and there was a good special) to get a pentium 100 with 16 me

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Why is it that you need to use TT fonts? Debian has free fonts > > available as standard packages that "just work". > > Somebody is preparing a document (in OOo) which must have those > fonts. No choice here, I am afraid. There is ttf2pt1, a TrueType t

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/29/08 10:58, H.S. wrote: [snip] > BTW, I am trying to push Linux in a local community center (also trying > to convince them that the MS Windows they keep on install on all > computers donated to them without Windows is not really legal!). If the

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Why is it that you need to use TT fonts? Debian has free fonts available as standard packages that "just work". Doug. Somebody is preparing a document (in OOo) which must have those fonts. No choice here, I am afraid. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:58:47AM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Thanks. I was beginning to wonder. > > I think I faced this problem sometime back as well. Never got it fixed. > The crux of the matter is: how does Debian (Linux in general?) deal with > printing a ttf font to PS -- without having to tweak

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which one

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:09:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > For the record, my IBM PS-ValuePoint 100DX4/Tp 6492x5c 486 was purchased > in 1988 (not 1987) :) If its for the record, I may as well get it straight (perhaps I am an old fogey). 1988 was when I got my IBM PS/2 model 70-A21 (3

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:33:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? > >>> Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fon

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? >>> Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fonts, never use tt fonts

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? > > > > Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fonts, never use tt fonts. > > I write with LaTex and turn the dvi into whatever I need. I'm I'm > > printing I

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 19:17, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > >> I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing >> "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so >>

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing > "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so > never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which > one is it? > > Also,

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello If a document containing some Indic fonts is printed, those fonts come out to be different on paper. English fonts are okay though. However, if the document is saved first as a PDF file and then that PDF printed, all fonts come out okay on the print

getting gs to see ttf fonts (was: Re: openoffice.org: fonts different on a printout (PDF print works))

2008-02-27 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello If a document containing some Indic fonts is printed, those fonts come out to be different on paper. English fonts are okay though. However, if the document is saved first as a PDF file and then that PDF printed, all fonts come out okay on the printout. This is