when printing a file, font is being substituted

[Helge Blischke]

Chris wrote:

> I feel like I probably should have been able to find an answer for this,
> but couldn't.
> 
> I have a pdf that uses the Tahoma font. The font is not embedded. When
> it's sent to cups for printing (on a printer, not cups-pdf), the font gets
> substituted with something else and the formatting gets messed up a
> little. I am not creating and don't have control over the creation of
> these documents so I can't embed the fonts.
> 
> I assume I need to install the tahoma font on the cups box. So I copied
> the tahoma.ttf file to /usr/share/cups/fonts/ Didn't work. I'm using
> Ubuntu 10.04 so I opened the font file and clicked 'install font'. Didn't
> work. Tried a number of other methods for installing fonts. Didn't work.
> 
> So, what's a guy gotta do to get a pdf to print with the proper fonts?
> 
> Chris

Please post more details about the printer and how it is configured in CUPS.

Helge