Hi, finely figured Yahoo groups out...

here my dilemma, I use PGS 5.0.5.8, Ubuntu Linux and a HP CP 2025 Printer using the CUPS print system, I have not been about to print directly to the printer, PGS just crashes, so I print to PDF (been doing this for years it seems)...

The PDF looks great on screen, fonts render perfectly, but nearly every print I make has a Character or 2 changed to a [] without the space, basically a box this maybe I just noticed only happening with Fancy fonts...

-Rodney

On Monday, January 02, 2012, you wrote:
> Hi, finely figured Yahoo groups out...
>
> here my dilemma, I use PGS 5.0.5.8, Ubuntu Linux and a HP CP 2025 Printer
> using the CUPS print system, I have not been about to print directly to
> the printer, PGS just crashes, so I print to PDF (been doing this for
> years it seems)...

So when you say,"Print to PDF", are you using the system print dialog, or
are you exporting to pdf (Pagestream Menu File -> Save as PDF...)
If using the System dialog, try the export and see what happens.

> The PDF looks great on screen, fonts render perfectly, but nearly every
> print I make has a Character or 2 changed to a [] without the space,
> basically a box this maybe I just noticed only happening with Fancy
> fonts...

Could try printing from a different pdf reader (evince, okular, acroread...)
just a thought.

Thanks for starting the fresh thread.

NB. I was under the impression that the cups PDF printer was not recommended
due to "potential" security implications. Just thought I would mention it.

Have a good night
dh

I think you pegged it, its the reader, it will take some testing to be
sure, what I did this am, was get Acroreader and Foxit, first I tested with
Envice
I made a doc with 7 different fonts on it, "Slow Red Fox Crawled Under the
Fence" (times, booter, Knightsquest, ariel, etc...) with the default Ubuntu
pdf reader Viewed fine and printed each line with the C in Fence either
missing or turned into a [] there were actually 4 different types of this
box...

I then printed with Acroreader and everything printed perfectly, I'll try a
few other readers eventually as Adobe's seems very slow

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:38 AM, dh <mesamoo115@comcast.net> wrote:

> **
>
>
> On Monday, January 02, 2012, you wrote:
> > Hi, finely figured Yahoo groups out...
> >
> > here my dilemma, I use PGS 5.0.5.8, Ubuntu Linux and a HP CP 2025 Printer
> > using the CUPS print system, I have not been about to print directly to
> > the printer, PGS just crashes, so I print to PDF (been doing this for
> > years it seems)...
>
> So when you say,"Print to PDF", are you using the system print dialog, or
> are you exporting to pdf (Pagestream Menu File -> Save as PDF...)
> If using the System dialog, try the export and see what happens.
>
>
> > The PDF looks great on screen, fonts render perfectly, but nearly every
> > print I make has a Character or 2 changed to a [] without the space,
> > basically a box this maybe I just noticed only happening with Fancy
> > fonts...
>
> Could try printing from a different pdf reader (evince, okular,
> acroread...)
> just a thought.
>
> Thanks for starting the fresh thread.
>
> NB. I was under the impression that the cups PDF printer was not
> recommended
> due to "potential" security implications. Just thought I would mention it.
>
> Have a good night
> dh
>
>
>

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On 1/3/12 8:05 AM, Rodney Volkmar wrote:
> I think you pegged it, its the reader, it will take some testing to be
> sure, what I did this am, was get Acroreader and Foxit, first I tested with
> Envice
> I made a doc with 7 different fonts on it, "Slow Red Fox Crawled Under the
> Fence" (times, booter, Knightsquest, ariel, etc...) with the default Ubuntu
> pdf reader Viewed fine and printed each line with the C in Fence either
> missing or turned into a [] there were actually 4 different types of this
> box...
>
> I then printed with Acroreader and everything printed perfectly, I'll try a
> few other readers eventually as Adobe's seems very slow

No surprise. I test in Acrobat, since that is the "living" standard, and
then try and work around bugs in the other PDF viewers as they are
reported. If you have a small sample PDF (and original PageStream
document) that reliably fails to reproduce correcting in a PDF viewer,
please make a bug report. They are not the most important of bugs, but
when I am futzing with PDF I usually take a crack at them.

The worst is support for >255 unique characters used from a single font
in a single document (the basic encoding of a font only supports 255
characters) and the funky gradients (saw/inverse saw etc). I try and use
the most widely supported features when possible, and only use the odd
ball/poorly supported features when necessary.

Deron

>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:38 AM, dh<mesamoo115@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> On Monday, January 02, 2012, you wrote:
>>> Hi, finely figured Yahoo groups out...
>>>
>>> here my dilemma, I use PGS 5.0.5.8, Ubuntu Linux and a HP CP 2025 Printer
>>> using the CUPS print system, I have not been about to print directly to
>>> the printer, PGS just crashes, so I print to PDF (been doing this for
>>> years it seems)...
>> So when you say,"Print to PDF", are you using the system print dialog, or
>> are you exporting to pdf (Pagestream Menu File -> Save as PDF...)
>> If using the System dialog, try the export and see what happens.
>>
>>
>>> The PDF looks great on screen, fonts render perfectly, but nearly every
>>> print I make has a Character or 2 changed to a [] without the space,
>>> basically a box this maybe I just noticed only happening with Fancy
>>> fonts...
>> Could try printing from a different pdf reader (evince, okular,
>> acroread...)
>> just a thought.
>>
>> Thanks for starting the fresh thread.
>>
>> NB. I was under the impression that the cups PDF printer was not
>> recommended
>> due to "potential" security implications. Just thought I would mention it.
>>
>> Have a good night
>> dh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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