Re: [tlug] Printing Japanese

[Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@example.com>]

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 16:12, Ulrich Plate wrote:

> Why does CUPS not use the same fonts for printing that the applications
> use for screen display? 

This is one of the basic problems with printing on Linux, and
apparently one that has been solved with something called fontconfig. 
now its just a matter of waiting for apps to support it.

> I'll try adding a few fonts to the system (and
> also to the CUPS directory, thanks for pointing that out. But why am I
> doing this? And what kind of font do I put in there? Truetype, simple as
> that? 

No, I think they need to be Postscript fonts.

Ryan

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