[vox-tech] Gentoo printer font problem

[Bruce Wolk]

Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 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
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cups is definitely selected. What is odd is that Kate prints out fine, 
but the Kword fonts are uniformly awful.

Gentoo has been great except for this one glitch, so I am not giving up 
yet, especially since openoffice works just fine.

Bruce