Re: When printing, chars are replaced with square graphic char

In my experience (mostly not with abiword), when a square is displayed (or
printed) instead of a character, it is because the font does not include that
character. For example, it often happens for me with characters outside the
128 ASCII characters, or when a document contains UTF-8 encoded characters,
and the font cannot handle beyond the 128 ASCII characters or UTF-8
characters.

Sorry for the top posting--it just seemed like it should be pretty clear this
way.

Randy Kramer

On Friday 09 September 2011 05:54:30 pm Roger wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:29:44AM -0800, Roger wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:24:04AM -0800, Roger wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 10:12:22AM -0800, Roger wrote:
> >>>
> >>>When printing, chars are replaced with square graphic char.
> >>>
> >>>=app-office/abiword-2.8.6-r1 cups readline -collab -debug -gnome
> >>> -grammar -latex -math -openxml -ots -plugins -spell -thesaurus -wmf
> >>> -wordperfect
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Changing fonts within Abiword does not help. I have no problems
> >>> printing from other applications such a OpenOffice/LibreOffice,
> >>> Seamonkey, VIM, ...
> >>
> >>This seems to be a TTF (Truetype Font) issue. Printing with Times New
> >> Roman and Bitstream fonts seems to show this problem. However, printing
> >> with Courier New font doesn't show this problem.
> >
> >To further justify it's Abiword, printing to PDF and printing the PDF from
> >another application doesn't display this problem.
> >
> >--verbose=2 isn't giving me any output.
>
> Doh! I just found this bug occur within Seamonkey on one char 'S' on a true
> type font page. Printing directly from Seamonkey displayed the problem,
> but printing first to postscript, then from gv didn't show the problem.
>
> Can't be a corrupt font file as I would think you would see squares while
> in preview too.

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Received on Sat Sep 10 00:38:53 2011