On 2022-04-07 18:20, nimrod wrote:
Hi,
I'm getting very strange, and ugly, prints with LibreOffice, Evince and
Atril. You can see what I mean in the linked screenshot below.
when I open a PDF file, with Evince, Atril, PDFmod and so on. The
results when I print the same file. It seems the problem is the
monospace uppercase "A". But somewhere else the same horrible result
seems caused by a monospace lowercase "b" in the word "sub".
My guess not knowing anything about your setup is that the printing is
happening using some print language postscript or the HP one (PCL), and
the fonts are not communicated properly or missing on the printer, but
computer thinks they are there, etc.
You can try some experiments. You can print from LibreOffice to a PDF,
and then print that pdf from a pdf viewer and from chrome (since you can
print from chrome without issue), and that way narrow down the issue.
The other thing to do is switch your print settings in CUPS or whatever
the print system is from Postscript to PCL, or vice versa and see if
that fixes things.
Bijan
Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately I couldn't find any setting about Postscript, PCL or such in CUPS, HPLIP and the usual Gnome utilities to manage printers.
The only spot where I see something like what you say is from Libreoffice printer's details, File / Printer settings / Properties / Device / Printer language type. The choice is currently "Automatic: PDF", but I can choose also 3 level of Postscript or "Postscript: level from driver".
I guess I should look also in some configuration file.
Best regards.
