[Scribus] PDF and printing problems.

[ismgr]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 10:40 am, Peter Linnell wrote:

Thanks!

Chris

> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:49, ismgr wrote:
> > Scribus 1.0.1
> > Yellow Dog Linux 3.0
> >
> > I have been having troubles printing from Scribus for any documents to my
> > default printer.
> >
> > The printer prints from other apps (KWord, KSpread, Galeon, Konqueror),
> > so I my thought was perhaps there was an issue with the data that Scribus
> > was sending.
> >
> > I attempted to create a PDF file of a working Scribus document and it
> > worked fine it seemed, until I opened the file in xPDF. When opened, the
> > screen fonts were messed up, and at that point, the PDF file wouldn't
> > print either.
> >
> > I told Scribus to embed all fonts, but it didn't seem to work right.
> >
> > Please don't miss the fact that I fully realize this is likely user
> > error.......  :-)
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Chris
>
> Things to check:
> > ______________________________________________________________________
>
> If you have kprinter and CUPS, how does that work ?
>
> Which version of Ghostscript do you have ?
>
> Can you compile GSview ? I do not know if this is available for PPC.
>
> Notes on xPDF:
>
> I just did some testing with Scribus PDF's and poking around the docs
> for latest version of XPDF. It will only use the default X fonts, unless
> you have a .xpdfrc file in your home directory.
>
> If you installed the XPDF docs, do a search for sample.xpdfrc and copy
> this to your home directory. Open this in a text file and look through
> the settings, it is well commented. You can add additional font paths to
> let Xpdf search for your True Type fonts for example.
>
> It is unfortunate Acro Reader is not available for PPC/Linux.
>
> Regards,
> Peter