I'm still very lost on the printer fonts front.
I've been playing with different applications under KDE and Kword for example can print in a number of fonts. In particular it gives me a series of Bitstream Vera fonts and Luxi fonts to choose from. Plus it gives me Serif and Sans Serif which are actually just aliases for the Bitstream Vera ones.
However the application I want to use, knoda, which is a KDE applicatioa,n only presents me with five fonts and in reality four out of the five actually print Courier and the fifth (Serif) is the only one which prints anything presentable.
Can anyone suggest what might be going on here?
By the way I have rebuilt knoda from the source and it behaves exactly the same as the Slackware .tgz package that I originally installed.
On 2004-11-25 22:41:23 +0000 Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
I'm still very lost on the printer fonts front.
Sorry, I can't really help with CUPS. I don't know how to check what fonts the printer knows through it. It sounds to me like it might be a knoda bug if other KDE applications are happy with the fonts, though, so that's where I'd start, by checking their bug database, manuals and so on, then asking on its mailing list whether others have seen that problem before. Maybe try a "klsfonts" or whatever the KDE font tester/viewer is called too.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 06:18:51PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-11-25 22:41:23 +0000 Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
I'm still very lost on the printer fonts front.
Sorry, I can't really help with CUPS. I don't know how to check what fonts the printer knows through it. It sounds to me like it might be a knoda bug if other KDE applications are happy with the fonts, though, so that's where I'd start, by checking their bug database, manuals and so on, then asking on its mailing list whether others have seen that problem before. Maybe try a "klsfonts" or whatever the KDE font tester/viewer is called too.
I don't think it's actually a *printer* font problem (which is why I said I don't think CUPS is relevant) because knoda only has the same limited font collection for displaying its reports too.
I'm already on the knoda mailing list and have asked about this, maybe an answer is waiting there now.
I have also been looking at the code (it's C++ which is how I earn my living) and I have in fact got it to present me with more fonts by removing a couple of lines in the font selection area. Many of the extra fonts it gives me now don't work but it does give me Helvetica and that works so at least I have a workaround for the moment.
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