FC4:Printing Problems: evince or CUPS?

Roy W. Erickson erickson at pixelmagicfx.com
Fri Jul 1 22:13:51 UTC 2005


Hi all:

I did a clean build to 'FC4 release' and have done a yum update (yesterday).

I went to CUPS (http://localhost:631) and added my network connected 
printer, an HP 4050N with a ethernet port on it, using a 
'socket://192.168.3.63' connection type, I think like I did on my FC2 
build a year ago.

All seemed well. The test page came out nicely;)

I then went to print a PDF attachment from my Thunderbird mail agent, 
using their 'evince' viewer. In the viewer the document looked great, 
but the printout came out lacking all but a basic typewriter font. The 
math symbols were replaced with # signs and ! signs.

On FC2 I used xpdf, plus I thought I added my printer via an exact model 
name (HP4050), as opposed to just an "HP laser writer" that CUPS wanted.
I tried the Desktop->System Setings->Printing GUI but could not see how 
to add a networked non-server based printer.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,

Roy




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