From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 21:13:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C297E37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt24.cluster1.charter.net (remt24.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E0B43F85 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by remt24.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 68069283; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:13:06 -0400 Received: from gforce.johnson.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5L4D4iF032478; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:13:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@gforce.johnson.home) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5L4D4nD032401; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:13:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:13:03 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson To: Rob Lahaye Message-ID: <20030621041303.GA2402@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Rob Lahaye , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3EF2CCDE.50609@users.sourceforge.net> <20030620191807.GA41683@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> <3EF3C8DF.6070401@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EF3C8DF.6070401@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomes fixed width X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 04:13:09 -0000 On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:54:23AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:59:10PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > > >>Since I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (with cups-1.1.18), printing > >>has a problem with variable width fonts. Variable width fonts are > >>printed out as fixed width fonts; so text looks ugly and runs over > >>the lines. > > > > > > Are you using an "up-to-date" version of ghostscript? If so, that > > is the problem. The last version of ghostscript that does not > > exhibit this problem is ghostscript-gnu-7.05_5. I am not sure > > about the version number of ghostscript-afpl but recent versions > > exhibit this problem. > > Yes I was up-to-date with ghostscript and that indeed was the problem. > I forced the deinstall of my ghostscript-gnu-7.07, and installed > instead from the packages, version 7.05_4. > > My printing problem has gone now! > Thanks. > > Is the origin of the problem located? Will it be fixed in the next > release of ghostscript-gnu? Has this problem been reported to the > ghostscript-gnu developer community? I am not sure but I believe the problem is specific to the FreeBSD ports. I hope to have some time this weekend to dig into it a bit. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net