[gentoo-user] font corruption ???

[gentoo-user] font corruption ???

[David Relson]

My wife uses my gentoo workstation with Open Office Writer to prepare
documents for my son's Boy Scout troop and has encountered printing
problems.

The environment is cups-1.2.10-r1, openoffice-bin-2.3.0, xorg-x11-7.2,
xorg-server-1.3.0.0, etc.

After starting OOw, the first document (typically a single page) is
fine.  Reprinting it, gives garbled output.  An example is word "When:"
printing as "$ henC:" and "Where:" printing as "$ hereC".  Typically
capital letters, digits and punctuation are off (with the same wrong
character for the same original character, i.e. "$" instead of "W", ")"
instead of "S", etc).

Exiting OOw, restarting it, and printing the document gives similar
results -- first copy good, second copy munged.

I don't think the problem is a printer issue as it (a networked Brother
7820N) seems to work fine off our kids' WinXP machine.

Anybody seen this problem or have suggestions how to fix it?

Thanks.

David

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Re: [gentoo-user] font corruption ???

[Renat Golubchyk]

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Hi!

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:33:20 -0400 David Relson
<relson@osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> After starting OOw, the first document (typically a single page) is
> fine.  Reprinting it, gives garbled output.  An example is word
> "When:" printing as "$ henC:" and "Where:" printing as "$ hereC".
> Typically capital letters, digits and punctuation are off (with the
> same wrong character for the same original character, i.e. "$"
> instead of "W", ")" instead of "S", etc).
> 
> Exiting OOw, restarting it, and printing the document gives similar
> results -- first copy good, second copy munged.

I have never encountered this problem and have no solution. But may be
it's possible to work around this problem by exporting to PDF and
printing from a PDF viewer.


Cheers,
Renat

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durch die sie entstanden sind.
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Re: [gentoo-user] font corruption ???

[Liviu Andronic]

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Hello,

On 9/27/07, Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> I have never encountered this problem and have no solution. But may be
> it's possible to work around this problem by exporting to PDF and
> printing from a PDF viewer.
>

Thought of a similar solution. You could also try PostScript: instead of
sending to the printer, in the same "print.." dialog save it to a file. Then
print as many copies as you need (use xpp, gv, etc.).

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Liviu

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Re: [gentoo-user] font corruption ???

[David Relson]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:09:56 +0200
Liviu Andronic wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 9/27/07, Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have never encountered this problem and have no solution. But may
> > be it's possible to work around this problem by exporting to PDF and
> > printing from a PDF viewer.
> >
> 
> Thought of a similar solution. You could also try PostScript: instead
> of sending to the printer, in the same "print.." dialog save it to a
> file. Then print as many copies as you need (use xpp, gv, etc.).
> 
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> Regards,
> Liviu

'Tis amusing that 2 folks would both suggest printing to PDF.  When I
got home from work today, my college sophomore son informed me he had a
workaround -- print from PDF.

Of course, I'd like to know what's really going on ...

My thanks to those who responded.

David
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