Re: Unanswered Postscript Question on TWiki

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 13:54:09 EDT

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    This behavior *could* be caused by our use of a
    "characterWidths" array. We don't translate spaces
    into backspaces (postscript has no concept of a
    backspace, anyway). We translate them into moveto()
    operations, which just happen to move PS's pen
    "backwards" on the page.

    I don't know why this is going wrong for you. It works
    fine here and everywhere else I've tried. Does it
    happen for just some particular fonts?

    Dom

    --- Randy Kramer <rhkramer@fast.net> wrote:
    > Phil Ehrens asked the following question on the
    > TWiki:
    >
    >
    http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/FaqPostscriptOutputProblems
    >
    > Anybody care to take a stab at an answer?
    >
    > <quote>
    > I am finding that all postscript output (to printer
    > or file) is mangled since
    > AbiWord 1.0.4 and including 2.0. Since everyone
    > seems happy with AbiWord, I
    > assume I am doing something to make my postscript
    > output bad.
    >
    > All my postscript output comes out with some spaces
    > converted to backspaces
    > randomly!! The result is that words are run together
    > and sometimes even
    > overlap. Weird. I did a google search, and found
    > that somebody posted this to
    > the Debian (I am using Slackware) folks as a bug,
    > but there was no detectable
    > followup.
    >
    > Somebody did mention that rtf support was not
    > broken, and that exporting rtf
    > and printing that from OpenOffice worked!!
    >
    > What happened to the postscript output after 1.0.3
    > and why is it only
    > affecting (apparently) a small number of users?
    > </quote>
    >
    >
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