Helvetica Printer Fonts & HP 1100 (again)

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

[Sending again -- in hope someone can help]


I have a testing/unstable machine with CUPS and a non-postscript printer
(HP LaserJet 1100).  

When I print a calendar with Jpilot the fonts are really poor quality.
The fonts look like an old dot matrix -- like it's about 50dpi.

And indeed when I create a small postscript file as shown here:
  
   http://www.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/2003-January/001384.html

and print it with "lpr tmp.ps" the printed text is very poor quality.

Printing from other programs works fine (e.g. Mozilla, Abiword (although
in the case of Abiword the *screen* fonts look bad but it prints ok)).

Any ideas?

I think I've got an old postscript printer out in the garage.  Maybe I
should try that.  Using cups and my non-postscript printer is sure slow.



ii  cupsys         1.1.15-4       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii  cupsys-bsd     1.1.15-4       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
ii  cupsys-client  1.1.15-4       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client  pro
ii  libcupsys2     1.1.15-4       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
ii  libqtcups2     2.0-4          Qt interface library for CUPS
ii  qtcups         2.0-4          Qt front-end for CUPS.


gs output as suggested from the jpilot archive message.  (I would not say
those fonts look that good on screen, either.
http://hank.org/images/gs.png )

 gs -sDEVICE=x11 tmp.ps
GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from
/var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/n019003l.pfb... 1999108 624260 1622424 331974 0 done.
Loading NimbusSanL-Bold font from
/var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/n019004l.pfb... 2039300 669622 1622424 334109 0 done.
Loading NimbusSanL-ReguItal font from 
/var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/n019023l.pfb... 2099588 720577 1642520 339590 0 done.


$ cat tmp.ps
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
/Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont
100 500 moveto (Helvetica) show
/Helvetica-Bold findfont 12 scalefont setfont
100 400 moveto (Helvetica Bold) show
/Helvetica-Oblique findfont 12 scalefont setfont
100 300 moveto (Helvetica Oblique) show
showpage

-- 
Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org