Yes, we are both right to some extent. In the PPD files are listed the "hard" fonts, those which are available within the printer itself, whether it is a postscript printer or not. But this information is not used by StarOffice. It may be, however, used automatically by the printer if it asked to print a file which does not have the font data embedded in it. This will happen if the font used in the file is not correctly listed in xp3/psstd.fonts and/or if there is not a correct correspondence between this file and the ghostscript fontmap (when ghostscript is used). If the printer knows Postscript, it may be driven directly by Staroffice, using a file in xp3/ppds adapted to that printer. However the more general solution is to go through ghostscript ; this offers the possibility of printing the TrueType fonts too. I don't know how to make use of a PCL printer (some of which have PPD files in xp3/ppds) directly, without the help of ghostscript. That is, I tried with my IBM4039 PCL printer and it did not work, on the other hand, using ghostscript I can print on it perfectly. On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:07:03PM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Andrei Mircea wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:06:09PM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
The fonts available for the printer are listed in:
Office51/xp3/ppds/SGENPRT.PS
I'm afraid that this is not correct. The fonts available for the printer are listed in: Office51/xp3/psstd.fonts
We're both right. The fonts are listed in both places. Why, I don't know.
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