What decides the fonts available for printers?
I want to make a few more fonts available when printing from knoda (a KDE application) as there isn't a decent sans-serif font at the moment. How do I add a printer font for use in a specific application?
On 2004-11-23 22:40:45 +0000 Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
What decides the fonts available for printers?
The printer server you're using, probably. For example, ghostscript-based printer servers use /etc/gs/Fontmap or (more likely) a file called Fontmap in whatever else is on the "Search path" output of the "gs -h" command.
I would imagine that CUPS has some pretty web frontend and xprint uses the same setup as your display, but I could be wrong. My current printer setup is a script called lpr which pipes a file through gs to /dev/lp in the background - seemed like the simplest thing that could possibly work.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:21:50AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-11-23 22:40:45 +0000 Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
What decides the fonts available for printers?
The printer server you're using, probably. For example, ghostscript-based printer servers use /etc/gs/Fontmap or (more likely) a file called Fontmap in whatever else is on the "Search path" output of the "gs -h" command.
I would imagine that CUPS has some pretty web frontend and xprint uses the same setup as your display, but I could be wrong. My current printer setup is a script called lpr which pipes a file through gs to /dev/lp in the background - seemed like the simplest thing that could possibly work.
I'm using CUPS.
The problem however is that *one* KDE application is only showing me five fonts to choose from whereas everything else in the system is showing me the same dozen or more different fonts. What I can't fathom is where this one application is getting its limited list of fonts.
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