"MZ" == Maciej Żenczykowski <maze at 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. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060113/379cb10a/attachment-0003.sig>