[vox-tech] Gentoo printer font problem

[Daniel Hurt]

If you do not want the emerge time of open office, you can

# emerge app-office/openoffice-bin

Dan

Bruce Wolk wrote:
> Rod Roark wrote:
> 
>>On Friday 21 May 2004 09:27 pm, Bruce Wolk wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>After I managed to wreck my Redhat 9 set-up trying to upgrade to KDE 
>>>3.2, I decided to start over with Gentoo.  It has been quite a ride, but 
>>>I now have a working system with KDE, Firefox, and Thunderbird.  But I 
>>>am stumped trying to get decent printing.  I have an hp laserjet 1300 
>>>and have set up cups and foomatic.  The test page from the CUPS print 
>>>manager prints beautifully.  But any printing from the KDE programs, 
>>>such as Kword or Kate, produce ugly, barely readable text. 
>>>
>>>Do any of you Gentoo folks have a suggestion?  Or is fedora in my future?
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Not sure what you've tried already.  The choice of fonts can
>>matter a great deal.  And then there's the Gentoo Printing
>>Guide:
>>
>>  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml
>>
>>-- Rod
>>
> I have tried installing the printer a number of ways: the cups web gui 
> http://localhost:631, the kde printer installer, and the brute force foomatic 
> command line.  The printer prints the cups test page beautifully. Oddly, some 
> applications now print ok, such as Kate and Thunderbird, which didn't when I 
> initially faced this problem.  But in Kword the fonts still print ugly.  A 
> postscript printer shouldn't have these problems.  Perhaps I should try 
> openoffice and see what happens there.  Another long emerge...
> 
> I have been impressed with Gentoo, but this printing problem is a deal breaker.  
> I am bittorrenting Fedora Core 2 as I write.  I'll put it on my second drive and 
> see if things go better.
> 
> Bruce
> 
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