[vox-tech] Gentoo printer font problem

[Bruce Wolk]

Jonathan Stickel said the following on 05/24/04 09:17:
> Bruce Wolk wrote:
> 
>> Jonathan Stickel wrote:
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>>> Bruce Wolk wrote:
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>>>> Rod Roark wrote:
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>>>>> On Friday 21 May 2004 09:27 pm, Bruce Wolk wrote:
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> <snip>
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>>>>>> Thunderbird.  But I am stumped trying to get decent printing.  I 
>>>>>> have an hp laserjet 1300 and have set up cups and foomatic.  The 
> 
> <snip>
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>>> 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".
>>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Hmm... looking up your printer on linuxprinting.org 
> (http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1300), 
> I see this note:
> 
> "User Notes
> Printer works as designed.
> The foomatic ppd file does not work, use the NT ppd file in CUPS.
> It can be found on the cd that comes with the printer.
> The file is called "hp1300nt.ppd" and there should be multiple ones for
> each translation. Works perfectly, just copy it to /usr/share/cups/model/
> to use it with CUPS."
> 
I added the hp1300nt.ppd file.  Trying to install a printer with cups 
gave me no new options.  In fact cups lists only a few hp drivers.  So I 
am wondering whether something is wrong there. But I was able to add a 
printer with the new driver using kde printing manager and activate it 
through cups.  Kate prints even nicer now--no dithering on the 
greyscale--but Kword prints poorly still and, even more surprisingly, 
firefox won't print at all!  The printer light also flashes continuously 
after a job.  So I am back to square one.

Would an unmerge of cups and foomatic followed by an emerge be worth a 
try, or is that dangerous?

Bruce