Swedish characters in postscript files printing as space
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at acm.org
Mon Feb 7 03:33:39 PST 2011
Nigel Bennington wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction here, as I am racking
> my brains over this one.
>
> I am running CUPS 1.1.21 (I think, that's the version string in
> cupsd.conf) on Solaris 10 - If it helps, it's the CUPS from the 10/04
> companion CD.
>
> I have all locales installed, and base locale is set to Northern Europe,
> with ISO8859P1 as the default character set.
>
> The problem I have is that postscript or pfd files containing swedish
> characters are substituting spaces for the swedish characters. They also
> display as spaces in Ghostscript.
>
> If I ftp the same files down to a windows system, they both print and
> display correctly.
>
> Any pointers as to what I am doing wrong?
Please post (an URL to) a sample file (PostScript preferred).
If the files are created on your system, I guess either the fonts installed
on your system do not contain the glyphs for the swedish characters or the
creating applications do not correctly reencode the fonts.
Helge
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