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KDE print produces huge and buggy .ps files?
by Magnus Pym on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @07:24

Has anyone had a problem with KDE printing,
where the print produces HUGE .ps files that
are 3-10 times larger than similar files
produced by other apps? In particular, I have
in mind files produces by mozilla and konqueror.
Also, sometimes, .ps files produced by KDE
apps are unreadable by ghostscript, and many
printers (esp. HP) do not interpret them
correctly. Is this a known issue or am I
doing something wrong?

Magnus.

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Re: KDE print produces huge and buggy .ps files?
by Dom2 on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @08:45

I've seen this too. It appears to be because QT converts TTF fonts to postscript and includes them in the file. And it appears to forget some of them. Today I had to edit an output postscript file and change a Misc-fixedList to a VerdanaList to get a document to print properly.

It definitely needs some looking at, but I'd wager it's a QT thing, not a KDE thing.

-Dom

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Re: KDE print produces huge and buggy .ps files?
by David Faure on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @13:27

You are right, this is entirely a Qt issue, and you should make sure you have the latest Qt 2.x release.

Printing will be much improved with the Qt 3 port, but that's for later.

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