[Sending again -- in hope someone can help]
I have a testing/unstable machine with CUPS and a non-postscript printer (HP LaserJet 1100). When I print a calendar with Jpilot the fonts are really poor quality. The fonts look like an old dot matrix -- like it's about 50dpi. And indeed when I create a small postscript file as shown here: http://www.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/2003-January/001384.html and print it with "lpr tmp.ps" the printed text is very poor quality. Printing from other programs works fine (e.g. Mozilla, Abiword (although in the case of Abiword the *screen* fonts look bad but it prints ok)). Any ideas? I think I've got an old postscript printer out in the garage. Maybe I should try that. Using cups and my non-postscript printer is sure slow. ii cupsys 1.1.15-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.15-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman ii cupsys-client 1.1.15-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro ii libcupsys2 1.1.15-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs ii libqtcups2 2.0-4 Qt interface library for CUPS ii qtcups 2.0-4 Qt front-end for CUPS. gs output as suggested from the jpilot archive message. (I would not say those fonts look that good on screen, either. http://hank.org/images/gs.png ) gs -sDEVICE=x11 tmp.ps GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22) Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/n019003l.pfb... 1999108 624260 1622424 331974 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-Bold font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/n019004l.pfb... 2039300 669622 1622424 334109 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-ReguItal font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/n019023l.pfb... 2099588 720577 1642520 339590 0 done. $ cat tmp.ps %!PS-Adobe-2.0 /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont 100 500 moveto (Helvetica) show /Helvetica-Bold findfont 12 scalefont setfont 100 400 moveto (Helvetica Bold) show /Helvetica-Oblique findfont 12 scalefont setfont 100 300 moveto (Helvetica Oblique) show showpage -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
