Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

["Matthew R. Lee" <gentoo@matthewlee.org>]

On Sunday 24 June 2007 04:36, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:13, Christian wrote:
> > Ok, I have found the solution of my problem:
> >
> > emerge --unmerge ghostscript-gpl
> > emerge ghostscript-esp
> >
> > That solves my problem. Maybe it helps you too.
>
> It seems that soon they will be merged:
>
> http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L463
>
> > Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 22:28 schrieb Matthew R. Lee:
> > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system and
> > > cups-pdf.  The fonts are a right mess, see attached example.
> > > Now I know one work-around is to print to postscript than do a ps2ps
> > > followed by ps2pdf, but this is a less than perfect solution, though
> > > the only one I've come across so far.
> > > Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, how did you solve it?
> > > Comments greatly received
> > > Matt
Swaping ghostscript-gpl for ghostscript-esp improved the situation, at least 
now the pdf is readable.  However the fonts are still a little ugly and I 
can't see any option in the cups interface under set printer options for 
embeding the fonts.  I'm offered pdf-general, pdf-banners, pdf-policies
Matt
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