[cups.general] Strange characters when printing from OS X to Linux CUPS server

Steve Wilson stevew at purdue.edu
Wed Sep 29 13:29:37 PDT 2010


I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and the CUPS packages from that distribution.

Steve

On 09/29/2010 04:25 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> It would help to know what Linux distribution you are using, however this sounds like an issue either in the PDF filter or Ghostscript.
>
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Steve Wilson wrote:
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>> All,
>>
>> I just upgraded to CUPS 1.4.3 and a few OS X users started complaining
>> that some of their documents now have odd characters added to them.  It
>> looks like most spaces are being replaced with a "double low-9 quotation
>> mark" (or a double comma).  The same document prints fine from a Linux
>> client.  Changing the font of the text from Times New Roman to a
>> different font on the Mac corrects the problem.
>>
>> Before I spend too much time debugging this, I thought I'd put the
>> question out to the list to see if anyone has seen this problem before
>> and can suggest a solution.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Steve
>>
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