[vox-tech] Gentoo printer font problem

[Jonathan Stickel]

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.
> 

Don't give up on Gentoo yet!  Printing from KDE apps sends the job 
through "kprinter".  At the bottom of the kprinter window is a selection 
for "print system currently used".  Make sure that cups is selected.  I 
remember that something else, like lpr, was the default.  If this 
doesn't work, let me know.  I can think of other things to troubleshoot, 
one at a time.

BTW:  you can use the kprinter system for printing in non-KDE apps, like 
acroread and mozilla.  For the print command in the appropriate gui 
window, enter "kprinter".

Jonathan