Re: My Abiword 2.8.6 can't print RTF correctly. (solved)

Hi Theirry,

Thanks very much for send me the "Fischier_General_" file. I confirm
that it opens and views fine in the main screen but that printing
doesn't work on my Fedora 14 version of AbiWord-2.8.6. I think the
"Times" font is not available on our Linux distribution. AbiWord
substitutes a close font to display the content on screen but the
gtk-based printing system does not succeed with the font substitution.
This is probably a bug in gtk-print. Do you mind if I submit your
document along with a bug report to the gtk-print maintainers?

best regards,

Martin

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I intended to post this long ago but stupidely sent it to myself
> instead :)
>
> On Friday 12 November 2010 12:33:37 am Thierry de Coulon wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm using Abiword to read and print RTF files generated by a program I
>> wrote. These documents include some simple text and a table, and page
>> breaks.
>>
>> I can display and print these documents OK in textEdit on a Mac
>> I can display and print these documents OK in Abiword 2.6.4 that is
>> installed on my Mepis 8.0.15 install
>>
>> With Abiword 2.8.6 that installed with Ubuntu 10.10, I can read and display
>> the documents OK on the screen, but print preview and printing give a very
>> stramge result: the layout is preserved, but only the first letter of a
>> sentence (or the first number in a table cell) are shown (actually, there
>> are also a few other letters, but I see no clear pattern).
>>
>> Note that if the document includes only 1 page, it prints OK.
>>
>> Is this a 2.8.6 problem, or is it only Ubuntu's version?
>>
>> Thierry
>
> Answering myself, just because I think it might be useful to someone else.
>
> While it does not explain why only some versions show this, I found out the
> problem came from the RTF code, not from Abiword.
>
> The font header came from TextEdit and refered to MacOS fonts:
> {\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}
>
> This was displayed correctly but print preview and printing freaked out.
>
> This new version, taken directly from Abiword's own formatting, works with
> both Abiword _and_ textEdit:
> {\fonttbl\f0\fttruetype Arial;}
>
> Thierry
>
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Received on Mon Nov 22 13:09:52 2010