[cups.general] Printing problems from MacOSX clients to a Linux CUPS server

rob at concord-hs.org rob at concord-hs.org
Tue Oct 5 07:44:49 PDT 2004


Im having the same problem with OSX 10.3.5 clients printing to A SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. I have tons of fonts installed on the server. it still dose not work. however an odd note X11 apps such as the Gimp and Open Office on the mac clients dont have this problenm
"John C. Welch" wrote:
> On 7/28/04 2:32 AM, "Blaise Drayer" <cups at drayer.ch> wrote:
>
> >> Probably you have an older version of CUPS which does not correctly
> >> embed TrueType fonts when printing PDF files coming from the Mac
> >> system.
> >
> > I am using CUPS 1.1.20 on my linux server (Debian Woody with CUPS from
> > backports.org). For the macOSX I don't know the version number of cups
> > but I have this problem with MacOSX 10.2 (I must test with MacOSX 10.3.1).
>
> 1) Update to 10.3.4 if you are going to use 10.3 at all. Running 3+ minor
> system versions back is not the greatest idea.
>
> 2) What fonts and what languages are you seeing this problem with? Assuming
> that all MS Office 2004, (2003 is the windows version) fonts are truetype on
> OS X is not a good assumption to make. Also, Office 2004 has more unicode
> support than earlier versions, so the name of the font and they language
> you're using are needed to help see where the problem lies.
>
> john
>
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> John C. Welch
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