Re: [ARMini-support] PDF printing
- From: John Norris <jrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:03:15 GMT
In message <69802b7754.Andrew-Pin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <b0d4217754.John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> on 16 Dec 2014 John Norris <jrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You may well be right but I don't see how it's relevant to my case
>> where I am using a PCL driver, not a PostScript driver, to print pdf
>> files - unless the implication of what you are saying is that text in
>> the pdf file is already inherently flawed by the use of PS2 drivers to
>> create it in such a way that it can be viewed but not printed. Given
>> that the Pi will happily print such files complete with text, whereas
>> the Pandaboard won't, suggests that the cause of the problem cannot
>> rest wholly with the PS drivers.
Re-reading the above I see I have, once again, written beyond my level
of knowledge. In my case, trying to print pdf files via PCL to a
non-PostScript printer, the PS driver issue is largely if not
completely irrelevant. This is because even if a PS driver problem
were in some way responsible for my own pdf files printing without
text it wouldn't be relevant to pdf files generated by others, for
example using Acrobat on a PC. Yet these too print without text from
my PandaRO (but print correctly from my Pi and RiscPC).
> I have a vague recollection that problems have been caused by text
> needing to be converted to paths in order to print to PostScript. Or
> am I muddling things up?
No I don't think you are muddling things up as if I convert text in,
say, a Drawfile to path before creating a pdf file then the text
prints OK. However that doesn't help much with 'non-graphics' text in
a pdf file.
John Norris
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