"MZ" == Maciej Żenczykowski <maze(a)cela.pl>
MZ> Hey folks, okay, here's the situation - I have a Centos
MZ> 4.2 system with cups printing installed printing via
MZ> postcript (with appropriate PPD file) to a HP LaserJet
MZ> 1320N printer (via jetdirect socket 9100).
I have the same setup....
MZ> Everything seems to work right - except for an unusual
MZ> 'font'??? problem. Many letters seem to be just slightly
MZ> garbled.
I have also seen this problem, generally when printing a PDF file
(generated with TeX) from gv. If I open the file in Acrobat, it
prints fine.
I just tried generating some PostScript by piping the output of a
command that produces ASCII through ``a2ps -1'', and I see no
issues with the printout.
If I take a simple LaTeX document and TeX it, producing a DVI file;
then run dvips to produce a PostScript file and print that file
From gv, I see no issues. On the other hand, if I run that same
PostScript file through ps2pdf, then open the PDF file in gv and
print it, I see the broken/malformed character issue.
Running pdflatex on the source file to get a PDF file gives the
same results: looks fine on screen, prints with broken/malformed
characters from gv; prints fine from Acrobat.
I had the very same problem with a LaserJet 1200 connected via a
parallel cable under CentOS 3 a while back, and never really
figured out what the deal was beyond this point. The obvious
candidate is GhostScript, or gv's use of GhostScript to generate
PostScript from the PDF file.
Sorry I can't be more specific about what the cause is or a better
solution, but at least you know you're not alone in having the
problem!
Claire
P.S. On Will's question -- self tests work fine. It's definitely
not the printer, unless it's some weird interaction between
its emulated-PostScript interpreter and GhostScript.
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Claire Connelly cmc(a)math.hmc.edu
Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754
Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College
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