Linux printer font size too small in V500

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

On 06/24/08 21:10, Robert Johnson wrote:

...

2) The other issue I have is that no matter whether I print to a printer

or to PDF, the font sizes are tiny. Like, I need a magnifying glass to

read them. On screen the fonts are fine. A temporary workaround is to set

the fonts in Eagle to 'Always Vector Font' and 'Persistent', but then the

PDFs I create are not searchable. Is this another bug related to QT and

CUPS and the Eagle implementation thereof (no other app on this system

has these printing issues), or is there something else going on? I've

tried everything I've found on a search for 'font' in these groups:

removed ~/.config/Trolltech.conf, checked DPI (95x95), tried various

other fonts as my default system font, etc. Nothing seems to work. Any

ideas? Thanks.

 

Since the problem happens in both PDFs and printouts, I doubt that

this is a CUPS problem.

 

My best guess is that it's a problem with your font setup (which

probably triggers a bug in Qt - since other apps work fine).

 

Printing works fine here on SUSE 10.3.

 

Klaus Schmidinger

I'm starting to lean towards a QT bug. If I place a fontconfig pattern

command in my local .fonts.conf file to substitute courier with monospace,

the text I've placed in the 'fixed' font starts printing OK, but the

proportional spaced fonts still print really really small. Nothing I've

tried so far seems to change that outcome. My google searches are coming up

with some font-size errors with certain versions of the QT libraries. If

you could, would you please tell me what the qtconfig help dialog gives for

the QT version on SUSE 10.3? Gentoo seems to be at 4.3.3 currently. Thanks.

Robert Johnson wrote:

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

 

On 06/24/08 21:10, Robert Johnson wrote:

...

2) The other issue I have is that no matter whether I print to a printer

or to PDF, the font sizes are tiny. Like, I need a magnifying glass to

read them. On screen the fonts are fine. A temporary workaround is to

set the fonts in Eagle to 'Always Vector Font' and 'Persistent', but

then the PDFs I create are not searchable. Is this another bug related

to QT and CUPS and the Eagle implementation thereof (no other app on

this system has these printing issues), or is there something else going

on? I've tried everything I've found on a search for 'font' in these

groups: removed ~/.config/Trolltech.conf, checked DPI (95x95), tried

various other fonts as my default system font, etc. Nothing seems to

work. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

Since the problem happens in both PDFs and printouts, I doubt that

this is a CUPS problem.

 

My best guess is that it's a problem with your font setup (which

probably triggers a bug in Qt - since other apps work fine).

 

Printing works fine here on SUSE 10.3.

 

Klaus Schmidinger

 

I'm starting to lean towards a QT bug. If I place a fontconfig pattern

command in my local .fonts.conf file to substitute courier with monospace,

the text I've placed in the 'fixed' font starts printing OK, but the

proportional spaced fonts still print really really small. Nothing I've

tried so far seems to change that outcome. My google searches are coming

up with some font-size errors with certain versions of the QT libraries.

If you could, would you please tell me what the qtconfig help dialog gives

for the QT version on SUSE 10.3? Gentoo seems to be at 4.3.3 currently.

Thanks.

Follow-up to my own post for the benefit of those who might ever come across

this issue:

I was able to fix this by turning off the scalable bitmap fonts. (In gentoo

this is done using 'eselect fontconfig list' and then 'eselect fontconfig

enable <#>' where # is the list entry for 'no-bitmaps.conf'.) I have no

idea why this is only an issue with Eagle 5.0, or what combination of

fonts / Qt / KDE / xorg triggers it, but I'm happy now

Robert Johnson wrote:

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

 

On 06/24/08 21:10, Robert Johnson wrote:

...

2) The other issue I have is that no matter whether I print to a printer

or to PDF, the font sizes are tiny. Like, I need a magnifying glass to

read them. On screen the fonts are fine. A temporary workaround is to

set the fonts in Eagle to 'Always Vector Font' and 'Persistent', but

then the PDFs I create are not searchable. Is this another bug related

to QT and CUPS and the Eagle implementation thereof (no other app on

this system has these printing issues), or is there something else going

on? I've tried everything I've found on a search for 'font' in these

groups: removed ~/.config/Trolltech.conf, checked DPI (95x95), tried

various other fonts as my default system font, etc. Nothing seems to

work. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

Since the problem happens in both PDFs and printouts, I doubt that

this is a CUPS problem.

 

My best guess is that it's a problem with your font setup (which

probably triggers a bug in Qt - since other apps work fine).

 

Printing works fine here on SUSE 10.3.

 

Klaus Schmidinger

 

I'm starting to lean towards a QT bug. If I place a fontconfig pattern

command in my local .fonts.conf file to substitute courier with monospace,

the text I've placed in the 'fixed' font starts printing OK, but the

proportional spaced fonts still print really really small. Nothing I've

tried so far seems to change that outcome. My google searches are coming

up with some font-size errors with certain versions of the QT libraries.

If you could, would you please tell me what the qtconfig help dialog gives

for the QT version on SUSE 10.3? Gentoo seems to be at 4.3.3 currently.

Thanks.

Follow-up to my own post for the benefit of those who might ever come across

this issue:

I was able to fix this by turning off the scalable bitmap fonts. (In gentoo

this is done using 'eselect fontconfig list' and then 'eselect fontconfig

enable <#>' where # is the list entry for 'no-bitmaps.conf'.) I have no

idea why this is only an issue with Eagle 5.0, or what combination of

fonts / Qt / KDE / xorg triggers it, but I'm happy now