How do I change the default font?

[Helge Blischke]

Mal, McLean wrote:
> 
> Helge Blischke wrote:
> >
> > Well, I've been imprecise in my answer. As Michal Sweet pointed out, the
> > testtops
> > filter gets the font information from the charset files (usually in the
> > /usr/share/cups/charsets directory). You could try to copy a suitable
> > charset file
> > under a new name, say my-charset, and replace "Courier" by the font name
> > you need.
> > Then print using the option
> >       -o document-format=text/plain,charset=my-charset
> > or
> >       -o attributes-charset=my-charset
> > and see what happens.
> >
> 
> OK,
> Firstly, thanks for your reply and efforts.
> I copied the 'iso-8859-1' charset file to 'my-charset' in that directory and changed the appropriate line to read:-
> 00 ff ltor single Helvetica Helvetica-Bold Helvetica-Oblique Helvetica-BoldOblique
> 
> The first option above came back with:-
> lp: unable to print file: client-error-document-format-not-supported
> 
> is this a version issue? (we're using cups-1.1.17-13.3.13)
> 
> The second option still printed in Courier.
> It also prints courier when I try printing using a non-existent charset.
> 
> I'm wondering where it picks up the font from?
> The only Helvetica we have are a set of .afm files under OpenOffice.
> The only PS fonts in /usr/share/cups/fonts are the 4 Courier ones and Symbol? (I just tried Symbol in place of Helvetica in the charset file and that didn't make any difference either).
> 
> We have ghostscript-fonts-5.50-9 installed.
> Does cups use the mappings in /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib/Fontmap.GS?
> How should it find this font?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Mal

As far as I can see from the sources (1.1.19, not the very newest ones),
the fonts must either be declared as printer-resident in the printer's
PPD or they get embedded from the directory where CUPS looks for
fonts. CUPS 1.1.19 does not (yet) allow to modify the path by
the environment variable CUPS_FONTPATH nor filename extensions like
..pfa, .pfb, .ps or the like.

Helge

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