Re: When printing, chars are replaced with square graphic char

From: Roger <rogerx.oss_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri Sep 09 2011 - 23:54:30 CEST

> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:29:44AM -0800, Roger wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:24:04AM -0800, Roger wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 10:12:22AM -0800, Roger wrote:
>>>
>>>When printing, chars are replaced with square graphic char.
>>>
>>>=app-office/abiword-2.8.6-r1 cups readline -collab -debug -gnome -grammar
>>>-latex -math -openxml -ots -plugins -spell -thesaurus -wmf -wordperfect
>>>
>>>
>>>Changing fonts within Abiword does not help. I have no problems printing from
>>>other applications such a OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Seamonkey, VIM, ...
>>
>>
>>This seems to be a TTF (Truetype Font) issue. Printing with Times New Roman
>>and Bitstream fonts seems to show this problem. However, printing with
>>Courier New font doesn't show this problem.
>
>To further justify it's Abiword, printing to PDF and printing the PDF from
>another application doesn't display this problem.
>
>--verbose=2 isn't giving me any output.

Doh! I just found this bug occur within Seamonkey on one char 'S' on a true
type font page. Printing directly from Seamonkey displayed the problem, but
printing first to postscript, then from gv didn't show the problem.

Can't be a corrupt font file as I would think you would see squares while in
preview too.

-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
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