[brlug-general] Printing in Linux

[-ray]

Good point about the printer.  However I would be more inclined to think 
it's the fonts in the OS.  I discovered this while exporting PDF from OO. 
I exported the same OO file to pdf on linux and on windows.  The pdf file 
from linux was always 2-3 times larger than the one on windows.  The 
googling i did led me to believe that Windows just has better fonts than 
Linux.  I tried installing win32 fonts on linux (Ubuntu) but didn't help 
the OO problem.

ray


On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, michael dolan wrote:

> This is a complete guess, but it might have more to do with the printer
> driver than the OS.
> You use CUPS?  What kind of printer do you have?  Something like a laser
> office printer that might have memory/ fonts already installed, or a little
> deskjet/inkjet?  The first would get sent postscript data, which might be
> different depending on the driver, while the second probably gets sent
> something more like a raster image - more like a bitmap that would probably
> not change given a different driver.
> MD.
>
> On 1/12/07, Joe Fruchey <ignavia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My wife teaches high school English. I make her vocabulary tests for her.
>> 
>> At first, I used Word, only because that's what she uses.
>> 
>> Then I started using OOo/Win32 when I discovered that CTRL-Up/Down
>> re-orders lists (NICE for matching tests).
>> 
>> Last night, I opened up one of the ODT files on my laptop (Ubuntu),
>> changed it, and printed it, and the page that came out of the printer
>> was very different from the ones that were printed under Windows. The
>> font was Palatino Linotype, which I have installed on my laptop. The
>> main differences were in the bold text, so I thought that maybe I
>> didn't have Palatino Bold installed, so it was using a faux bold, but
>> then I noticed that there were subtle differences in the normal-weight
>> text as well.
>> 
>> Same document, same program, same printer... only difference is the
>> OS. What gives?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
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