Re: Fixing Postscript

You might want to check the "Embed fonts in Postscript
output" in the printer dialog. Let us know if that
fixes things for you.

Dom

--- "DAVID L. ORMAND" <dlormand@aztecfreenet.org>
wrote:
>
>
>
> I have been using Abiword very successfully under
> Gnome for some time.
> Then I finally got tired of the bloat, ripped Gnome
> out, installed
> GTK2.4, XFCE4, and Abiword 2.0.7 and built
> everything without incident.
> Seems to work fine.
>
> Except for printing. Print quality sucks - the font
> is wrong, and the
> spaces are mostly replaced with backspaces - yes, I
> know there are not
> really backspaces in there, you are doing "moveto"
> with Postscript,
> the problem looks very much like what I read in the
> FAQ.
>
> Printing or looking at the PS files generated by
> "print to file" with
> gs looks the same. Bad. But if I take the PS files
> to another machine,
> they look fine.
>
> Also, while printing or using gs, I see in the
> terminal window I launched
> from, lots of complaints about not being able to
> find the font.
>
> So I conclude that Abiword is working fine, and I've
> screwed up my
> Postscript framework. a2ps and psutils are already
> installed. gs, too
> (at least, the same one that used to work fine).
> What do I need to do?
>
> (when I say "ripped Gnome out", I mean I reinstalled
> a minimalist RH9
> on the machine, which not only got rid of Gnome, but
> a lot of other
> waste that had accumulated. Apparently including my
> Postscript setup.
> It seems to be easier/faster to reformat and
> reinstall than figure out
> what files to throw away.)
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Received on Wed Jun 16 21:06:42 2004