[cups.general] only hieroglyphics with MacOS X

[Helge Blischke]

Michael Renner wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 09 November 2004 13:08, Helge Blischke wrote:
> > Michael Renner wrote:
> > > Moin,
> > >
> > > I run a cups server at a FreeBSD server. Irix, Linux and XP clients use
> > > this server for theire printouts.
> > >
> > > Some of the MacOS X clients make problems, some not! I configured
> > > /etc/cups/client.conf to point to my cups server. All printers are
> > > available. But dependent to the application, only caskets are printed, no
> > > letters! The printout of a web page (safari) is ok, the printout of an
> > > email isn't.
> > >
> > > I installed the printer server server direct to the mac and all printouts
> > > are ok, but they sould use the spooler of course!
> > >
> > > Any hint?
> >
> > Please supply an URL to a sample file.
> 
> OK, you finde the original document file at
> ftp://hyaden.dyndns.org/pub/misc/TEST.xml
> 
> The result of the printout is scanned in
> ftp://hyaden.dyndns.org/pub/misc/test.png
> 
> As I mentioned before: this only happens when the user is using cups. With the
> local installed printer driver the printout is fine.
> 
> Thanks

Well, on a PC i could open the xls file (not xml) and the text was
visible.
But the font used is Verdana, so I suspect the client software does not
include
this font into the PostScript stream.

As I haven't put my fingers into Mac OS X until now, I probably can't
give more
help.

Helge

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