Bug 62611 – Ximian-Openoffice V. 1.3. / 1.3.2 does not print TTF

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Georg Armbruster 2004-09-02 05:26:33 UTC]

Since the update of Ximian-Openoffice to the version 1.3 and
meanwhile 1.3.2, it seems Ximian-openoffice is unable to print
any truetype fonts... They are shown correctly, but when you
print them out, you will get only a blank peace of paper...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install ximian-openoffice in a current 1.3.x version
2. create a document using any truetype font (verdana will do :)
3. print the document
4. stare at a blank peace of paper :)

Actual Results:  
truetype fonts are not printed

Expected Results:  
well, a paper with letters on it would be nice :))))

kira ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.6.8.1-mm4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8.1-mm4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd
encode esd evo foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java
jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang
spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb wmf x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Donovan Long 2004-09-02 08:14:27 UTC]

Same problem here, though I can't confirm it's specifically one type of font.  My resume print shows graphic objects (a bar and bullets) only...

[Comment 2 Georg Armbruster 2004-09-02 08:52:19 UTC]

posted to bugzilla.ximian.com after having the same problem
also on a non-gentoo machine...
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65223

[Comment 3 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-09-02 13:51:01 UTC]

Which printer did you select in cups? Does it help if you use the ppd for the actual printer you are using? Some printers (including ghostscript) accept Type42 fonts (wrapped truetype fonts), but some (older ones) don't. Convincing the printing system that those type42 fonts are accepted by the printer while they are actually not, could very well lead to the letters not ending up on the paper.

[Comment 4 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2004-09-02 23:20:20 UTC]

This is a confirmed upstream bug, patch should be coming with the next release

[Comment 5 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2004-09-04 07:34:30 UTC]

New version (1.3.3) in portage now which fixes this problem

[Comment 6 gent_bz 2004-09-04 09:16:34 UTC]

Fix noted (and appreciated)

Suggest export to pdf and print that while waiting for 1.3.3 to emerge :)