Suse 8.0: Japanese printing problem?
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, but printing the same file via gv results in the same bakemoji output. Printing Japanese pages from konqueror (with option embed fonts) works OK (though konqueror has some other problems when printing Japanese, i.e., the characters are printed but there is no space between them, and often characters are overwritten with the following text etc). Print command in all cases was lpr. Cjk-LaTeX postscript prints fine. 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? Best regards, Wolfgang Wolfgang SLANY mailto:wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Wolfgang Slany
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
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