[cups.general] Acrobat (PDF) print question.

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 10 March 2006 01:58, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
>Im not sure where to best ask this question, but since a lot of
>printer savey folks read this list, perhaps someone here can
>help me.
>
>The question has to do with printing Acrobat pdf files thru CUPS.
>I had always thought that the REASON for Acrobat was so that
>a user didnt have all the problems of not having the fonts that
>a Postscript document asked for...
>
>Yet in recent months, and just now, I have a PDF file that wont
>print, and the error message that is spit out by my printer is that
>it doesnt have TimesNewRoman as a font.
>
>Is there anything I can do in a case like this (this is a HPLJ4M+
>and needless to say it doesnt have this font).
>
>I guess I would accept its best shot with some font that it does
>have (probably TimesRoman), but Ive seen this same error
>with a half dozen different fonts named in the error message,
>and I have a hard time believeing
>
>    (a) that modern printer have all these fonts built in.
>    (b) that there isnt some way to print these documents...
>
>Any suggestions/help appreciated.

Take a look at www.Goldenweb.it.  There are around 25,000 fonts there, 
and surely TimesNewRoman should be among them.  I got some fancy 
cursive ones for my CHristmas cards there, beautifully done stuff.


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