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Author bad Courier fonts
Bob Tennent

2005-03-15, 4:03 am

When I print files containing Courier fonts to a specific printer
(Samsung 1750), i get ugly overly large output. The same file sent to a
Postscript printer or to a Laserjet prints fine. So what's wrong? Is the
printer using built-in broken fonts? Is ghostscript failing to find good
fonts?

Here's a peculiar thing. If I display the file using gv, the upright
Courier is okay, the oblique and bold oblique are bad!

Here's the relevant part of the file:

%%BeginSetup
%
(Courier-iso1252) cvn (Courier) cvn ISO1252Encoding psp_definefont
(Courier-Bold-iso1252) cvn (Courier-Bold) cvn ISO1252Encoding psp_definefont
(Courier-Oblique-iso1252) cvn (Courier-Oblique) cvn ISO1252Encoding psp_definefont
(Courier-BoldOblique-iso1252) cvn (Courier-BoldOblique) cvn ISO1252Encoding psp_definefont
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Courier
%%+ font Courier-Bold
%%+ font Courier-Oblique
%%+ font Courier-BoldOblique


The system is Fedora Core 3 with ghostscript-7.07 and cups.

Bob T.
Alex Cherepanov

2005-03-15, 4:03 am

Bob Tennent wrote:

> When I print files containing Courier fonts to a specific printer
> (Samsung 1750), i get ugly overly large output. The same file sent to a
> Postscript printer or to a Laserjet prints fine. So what's wrong? Is the
> printer using built-in broken fonts? Is ghostscript failing to find good
> fonts?


Please file a bug report on http://bugs.ghostscript.com
Don't forget to attach a sample file.
Bob Tennent

2005-03-15, 3:59 pm

On 15 Mar 2005 03:08:26 GMT, Bob Tennent wrote:
> When I print files containing Courier fonts to a specific printer
> (Samsung 1750), i get ugly overly large output. The same file sent to a
> Postscript printer or to a Laserjet prints fine. So what's wrong? Is the
> printer using built-in broken fonts? Is ghostscript failing to find good
> fonts?
>
> Here's a peculiar thing. If I display the file using gv, the upright
> Courier is okay, the oblique and bold oblique are bad!
>
> The system is Fedora Core 3 with ghostscript-7.07 and cups.


For the record, this problem has disappeared after upgrading to
urw-fonts-1.2-7.99. The changelog for this package records the
following: - change descender/ascender in "NimbusMonL" on Feb. 24th.

Bob T.
Andreas Prilop

2005-03-15, 3:59 pm

On 15 Mar 2005, Bob Tennent wrote:

> (Courier-iso1252) cvn (Courier) cvn ISO1252Encoding psp_definefont


"iso1252encoding"? Isn't it called ANSIŽ encoding?

SCNR

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