font problems printing to pdf

ajnabi · Apprentice Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 208

Hello,

I have been having problems printing to pdf. The fonts come out all bunched up together. If I print to ps I almost never have problems.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
ajnabi

PowerFactor · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject:

What are you using to print to pdf?
If you print to ps then use ps2pdf to convert do you have the same problem?

ajnabi · Apprentice Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 208

PowerFactor,

Great!!

I just tried converting a ps file to pdf and it worked fine.

Do you know how to set this to work on the fly? Should I print to ps and pipe to pdf??
I'm also not sure what files to edit to do this.

Thanks,
ajnabi

PowerFactor · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm still not sure how you were trying to print to pdf. Most applications don't have any built in print to pdf capability.
Kde's print dialog (kprinter) has a print to pdf feature that works fine for me. It can be used with non-kde apps as well. Gnome probably has something similar. You can also use cups-pdf to set up a pdf printer in cups.

ajnabi · Apprentice Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 208

I am using cups with kde. I am using kprint's "print to pdf" or "print to ps" option. I emerged cups-pdf with worse results than I already have. Maybe I'm missing something on configuring it.

PowerFactor · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:31 am Post subject:

Yea, if your gettgin different results from ps2pdf with cups-pdf then it could be a config issue. They both use ghostscript for the ps->pdf conversion. I think kprinter does too but I'm not sure.

Guinpen · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 393

How can one use kprint's PDF printer from a non-KDE app, say firefox or acroread or openoffice?