Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:13:03 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov> To: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomes fixed width Message-ID: <20030621041303.GA2402@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <3EF3C8DF.6070401@users.sourceforge.net> References: <3EF2CCDE.50609@users.sourceforge.net> <20030620191807.GA41683@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> <3EF3C8DF.6070401@users.sourceforge.net>
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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
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