Greetings,
I am having a near show stopper problem with printing. While on screen fonts are fine, when printed, from *any* application, the kerning is so bad as to render the printout unusable for anything but the roughest draft uses. In some instances some characters actually touch or even overlap, while others have huge spaces between them. Sometimes spaces between words are nearly nonexistent. I have tried several different fonts, all TrueType, with the same result. Searching around, all I've found is this kword bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73484 - but since it has no votes I am assuming that, and assuming it is the same problem that I am having, it is not occurring widely and may be caused by some configuration or fontsystem problem.
Is this actually a kde (or qt) bug or does anyone have any suggestions that I might try to fix this problem? It really is a big problem here, as good printing is essential for us.
I am using kde 3.2.1, qt 3.3.1, ghostscript 7.07, on linux.
Thanks, and if this question has been answered elsewhere please forgive me for not finding it - but a pointer to that answer would be greatly appreciated.
There are known bugs with the Qt-PostScript Driver. However, it does work more or less except that the spacing of letters of proportionally spaced fonts are slightly too wide.
And people having your problem is a known problem, but not everybody has it. GhostScript 8.11 is now available -- it wouldn't hurt to upgrade.
Would you please advise me which fonts that you have tried and send me (private e-mail) a test PostScript file. Like 4 lines of The quick brown fix jumps over the fat lazy dog. Just use the print to file option in the Kprinter dialog.
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