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From: Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 02:24:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: PPR: Font downloading mac --> gs printer Hiya. I have been trying to get my Macintosh happily printing to a ghostcript/linux/HP deskjet combination which is pretending to be a laserwriter. I thought I'd give ppr a go, since it looks like a clever system. I've successfully compiled and install 1.40a7 (a couple of silly problems, nothing too hard to solve). Linux-side it all works fine. Printing from the Mac looks fine, as long as it uses standard PS fonts. However, using fonts which I don't have on the linux box, they come out in helvetica. I was rather hoping they'd be uploaded from the mac to ghostscript and rendered. I don't immediately see anything of any interest in the papsrv or pprd log files :-( It may be of note that if, on the MacOS, I select 'Get Font List' from the printer configuration window, the papsrv log reports a child segfault: jules@pear% cat /var/spool/ppr/logs/papsrv DEBUG: 11 Dec 1999, 07:55:35PM: Daemon starting, pid=14554 DEBUG: 07:55:35PM: registering name: HP Via PPR:LaserWriter@* DEBUG: 07:55:41PM: Entering main loop DEBUG: 08:27:05PM: Child papsrv (pid=14725) died on signal 11 I'm using a HP Deskjet 8xx PPD which is built like the 500 one supplied with ppr, with the resolution changed to 600 dpi. I have also downloaded it to the mac side, so the same PPD is used at boths ends [aside: why doesn't the mac just download the PPD?] Why aren't the fonts being downloaded? Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | jules@jellybean.co.uk | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | jules@debian.org | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/