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

> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 06:37:06PM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
>
>In my experience (mostly not with abiword), when a square is displayed (or
>printed) instead of a character, it is because the font does not include that
>character.

Correct, from my research too.

>For example, it often happens for me with characters outside the
>128 ASCII characters, or when a document contains UTF-8 encoded characters,
>and the font cannot handle beyond the 128 ASCII characters or UTF-8
>characters.

But it's only a few outlandish chars such as 'S' and 'u' or 'e' and
sporadically, but always consistently with the same single char in the same
location.

So, I'm again reinstalling every font in case I have a corrupt font file
someplace, including upgrading pango as pango is known for for such issues in
the past. Cairo is another package used between Seamonkey & Abiword.

So far, I have work arounds for printing (Print to PDF/PS, then lpr). For
envelopes, I can use texlive-latex as there's a good Latex Wiki page up now
with a good envelope template I can easily print.

Funny. Seems when I finally get everything printing alright, a bug always
magically appears and I'm back to cutting trees down to print! (This goes for
all the word processors.)

>Sorry for the top posting--it just seemed like it should be pretty clear this
>way.

(No problem. I usually post inline. ;-)

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