Alas, I am still getting the same results with both duplicated and brand new fields. Even in a whole new stack. I'm not getting very far with this. What is making the text get so screwed up? Does anyone have any insight?
Thanks again, Richard. Sean Cole *Pi Digital * On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 06:42, Pi Digital via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > That’s a possibility. Interesting. I’ll give it a go when I’m more awake. > Thanks Richard > > Sean Cole > Pi Digital > > > > On 4 Dec 2020, at 06:16, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Sean Cole wrote: > >> I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs. No > >> matter which font or style I use I get occasional anomalies where > >> characters from words get placed over each other like a kerning issue > gone > >> mental. > >> Bad rendering: > >> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/v09vacw8x3873qh/Screenshot%202020-12-04%20at%2005.53.47.png?dl=0 > >> Good rendering: > >> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehbdofm3nusgzyh/Screenshot%202020-12-04%20at%2005.54.08.png?dl=0 > >> It's very random. Sometimes it's ok. the next report will come out bad. > >> There's no real pattern I can identify. I've been going at it for a few > >> days trying different font types and styles but they are all very hit > and > >> miss. I can't work out if it is Cairo, Cups or something else. From the > >> print card dialogue I get the same issue. I'm so tired and frustrated > from > >> trying to sort it out. Anyone have a fix/workaround/suggestion? > > > > It's been a while since I've seen that, but when I did it was with an > older stack brought forward through many versions to v9. > > > > IIRC I replaced the fields that showed the issue one by one until the > problem went away. > > > > -- > > Richard Gaskin > > Fourth World Systems > > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
