Subject: Gnome-Print was:Re: TODO Before the release
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 08:04:10 CDT
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> > 14. Make printing work on Unix. I have a document with symbol fonts
> > written by a real user that he cannot print correctly. The gnome-print
> > sucks rocks badly. It screws up pagination and totally barfs on the
> > symbol
> > and dingbat fonts. Our own print prints the symbols and gets the
> > pagination right but throws in some extraneous degree symbols after
> > them!
> > I will work solidly on getting both the abi printing and gnome-print to
> > work correctly. I'll check this document into bugzilla and I think we
> > should not release 0.90 until it prints correctly.
>
> Printing on Unix in general sucks rocks through a garden hose. We
> really need to work on printing in general, because there are XP bugs
> in there too... I'll work on GnomeFont, but I've been told more than
> once that we don't use the correct glyphs for Symbol and Dingbats
> characters internally, so I'm not surprised that the GnomePrint build
> barfs on them, though it does suck.
I don't think this can be right. The 8 bit numbers that gives us our
symbols Just Work for X11 with adobe-font-specific enconding. Furthermore
they used to print fine too until some recent wierd bug with reMapGlyphs
screwed them up.
Furthermore when we export Symbol glyphs to RTF, using their regular 8-bit
encodings, MS Word displays them perfectly. In fact that is how I got some
emergency printing done of my own and rezn's documents with Symbol fonts.
I exported them to rtf and imported the document in MS Word and printed
it. It came out just the way it looks on my AbiWord Screen.
I don't understand what the Gnome-Print guys are saying. We're
just sending them 8 bit numbers that display fine on X11 and inside MS
Word on Windows. Why can they print them?
I'm CCing Chema about this. Hopefully he can explain the problem to me.
Cheers
Martin
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