Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Printing from a Mac; Font problems?
From: Jules Bean (jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 12 1999 - 14:12:02 EST
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> Hiya.
>
> Apologies if I'm asking something that's been hashed over recently, the
> mailing list archives appear to only go up to 1998.
>
> I have recently got a HP DeskJet 890C (second hand), and it's the first
> time I've had a printer for my Linux machine. I have to set it up working
> to my satisfaction, using magicfilter and the 'hpdj' ghostscript driver.
[snip]
> Anyway, it all works great.
>
> Until I choose a font on the Mac which gs doesn't have on the system, when
> I see a postscript error.
For any interested onlookers, the answer turned out to be that the fonts
concerned were truetype (as mac fonts tend to be), in some format which GS
5.1 didn't understand. An 'upgrade' to 5.5 solved the problem. Being a
debian developer, I'm not utterly happy about using aladdin GS, but
Aladdin assure me that 6.0 is due out soon (so 5.5 will become GNU).
My thanks go to Andras for helping me track this one down.
Jules
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