[NTG-pdftex] [ pdftex-Bugs-577 ] Type 3 fonts: on screen fine, on paper filled and displaced

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Bugs item #577, was opened at 2006-06-28 13:09
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Category: Fonts
Group: v1.30.0
Status: Open
Resolution: Works For Me
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Peter Dyballa (ballapete)
Assigned to: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel)
Summary: Type 3 fonts: on screen fine, on paper filled and displaced

Initial Comment:
Hello!

It's pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5), on Mac OS 
X 10.4.6, PPC. The Type 3 font is dijkstra, a famous person's 
handwriting, as distributed by many SunOS and Solaris versions.

Until mid May I had no problem with pdfTeX, dijkstra, and my EPSON 
EPL-5800 (PostScript 3). This week I again wanted to print a personal 
letter with Prof. Dijkstra's handwriting used for my letter head. And 
some letters were filled (P,e,9), others were horizontally and/or 
vertically displaced from their correct positions. Dijkstra was installed 
with fontinst.

Can this be a pdfTeX problem? End of May I added almost 1 GB of files 
to update SDKs etc. in Mac OS X to be able to produce Universal 
Binaries. The last few Tiger versions are known as a bit buggy. My last 
TeX binaries updates happened in the middle of May, but I have no 
LOG files from this. The recent LOGs from making the format files 
contain the string above ...

Greetings

Pete

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>Comment By: Peter Dyballa (ballapete)
Date: 2006-07-26 15:25

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*I* am terribly sorry!

Examining again my printer drivers upon your findings I now found that the 
PS3<version number> part of its name was removed! So I had some filter that 
converted PS or PDF into raster that was sent via ESP/P or such to the printer?

I found the right PPD file in the right place and re-installed this as my printer 
-- and it prints again. (Although it puzzles me why I could print the PDF 
output from XeTeX! This worked all the last weeks.) Probably *I* was 
choosing the wrong items in the printer configuration dialog!

Sorry for this!

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Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros)
Date: 2006-07-24 23:46

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[Sorry for not reacting earlier, but gforge sends no mail
when a file is attached; you also have to add a comment.]

The attached file uses a Type 1 font and prints perfectly on
an Lexmark Optra T612 (which has a PS3 RIP)...

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Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros)
Date: 2006-06-28 16:09

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Please provide a pdf showing the problems (attach it to this
bug).

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