Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (27 mails)

[Mike Fabian <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

Wolfgang Slany <wsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Since updating to suse 8.0 the following problem appeared:
>
> I cannot print Japanese pages from netscape (nor mozilla): only bakemoji
> result. Printing to file and inspecting the file via gv on the screen
> works fine,

this proves that you have Japanese fonts for Ghostscript installed.

> but printing the same file via gv results in the same bakemoji
> output.

This looks like you have setup your printer as a PostScript printer.
In that case, a PostScript file is sent 'as is' to the printer,
it is not rendered by Ghostscript, because the PostScript printer is
supposed to be able to handle that. But of course if you document
specifies Japanese fonts, this will only work if you have a Japanese
PostScript printer which does have such fonts.

If you don't have a Japanese PostScript printer, use YaST2 to set it
up as a non-PostScript printer, for example as a Laserjet4 or what
ever your printer is compatible to.

If your Printer is configured as a non-PostScript printer, Ghostscript
will be automatically used to render the PostScript document and
the printer will receive it as graphics. Then Japanese fonts
are not needed anymore in the printer. 

[...]

> Could it be that the update reset the print filter so that lpr since then
> can print only embedded fonts? Any fix for this known?

It looks like you have set your print filter to PostScript now
and previously, with SuSE Linux 7.3 you had it setup to use a
printer specific device like ljet4 or something like that.

Just change this with YaST2, then it should be OK again. 

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Mike Fabian   <mfabian@xxxxxxx>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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