Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:01:05 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> To: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomes fixed width Message-ID: <3F275111.10403@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <20030621041303.GA2402@gforce.johnson.home> References: <3EF2CCDE.50609@users.sourceforge.net> <20030620191807.GA41683@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> <3EF3C8DF.6070401@users.sourceforge.net> <20030621041303.GA2402@gforce.johnson.home>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Glenn, According to your comments (see below), the problem I addressed some weeks ago, was caused by the FreeBSD port at some stage during the upgrade to version 7.07 of ghostscript-gnu. Presently 7.07 has port upgrade "_3". I wonder if the problem has been addressed and solved by now. I am asking, since I am afraid it may be difficult/impossible to downgrade again, after upgrading the 7.07_3. My current version check says: cups-pstoraster-7.05.6 < needs updating (port has 7.07) ghostscript-gnu-7.05_4 < needs updating (port has 7.07_3) Thanks for your help, Rob. Glenn Johnson wrote: > 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. >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3F275111.10403>