Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

[Urs Schuetz <u.schutz@bluewin.ch>]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote:

> On Friday 22 June 2007 19:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
> > > 070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf,
> > > > both with kprint system and cups-pdf.
> > >
> > > Why don't you use Open Office ?  Create a .pdf , then print from Kpdf.
> > > There's a .bin , if you don't want to compile OO ( 5 hr  here).
> >
> > or koffice which is able to print to pdf just fine. And in 5h you can
> > install most of KDE+koffice.
> 
> I have open-office and I know it works fine for producing pdfs.  I normally 
> write my manuscripts in Latex and likewise I have no problem producing pdfs 
> from Kile.  This problem has arisen because I wanted to make pdfs of web 
> pages.  I've just submitted a research proposal and I needed to include a few 
> webpages in lieu of proper quotes for some of the equipment I wanted. The 
> online submission process required all documents to be uploaded in pdf 
> format.
> This is just an issue of something that is supposed to work and doesn't and 
> I'd like to figure out why and fix it.  At the moment though it 
> isn't "mission critical"

Have you configured the cups-pdf printer to embed the fonts?

If cups is locally installed, then just open the webbrowser and
go to http://localhost:631/ This opens a connection to the local
cups administration interface.

Select the "printers" tab, and search for the cups-pdf printer.
Select "Set printer options". This opens the settings for the pdf
printer.

What is shown here is depending on your local setup (the possible
settings are defined in a ppd file, which was selected during
setup of the cups-pdf printer).

Look for an option like "embed all fonts", and set it to "yes".
Look for an option like "subset fonts", and set it to "no", check
the licenses of the fonts which you use.

I'm not sure if it is necessary to restart the cups system,
/etc/init.d/cupsd restart

This will result in bigger pdf files. The produced pdf files
should contain all fonts, complete.

If there are no such settings for the cups-pdf printer then try
to create a new cups-pdf printer, and select "Postscript Color
Printer" as ppd.

Hope this helps. I'm using the cups-pdf printer often to store
web pages, and it's working pretty nice.

Urs


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