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John M. Linebarger
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 09/05/00 06:27am
OK, this is a weird one. I'm using Mathematica 3.0.1 for Linux, Student Version. It was all working fine under Slackware, then I upgraded to
Red Hat 6.2 to get a glibc-based system. All of a sudden, my notebooks stopped printing correctly--I wouldn't get the graphics characters in the Courier font, for example--they'd just be blank. Note that it was the graphics characters in the text, not the text in the graphics, that were hosed--I read the FAQ!
Anyhoo, by comparing the Postscript output from notebooks printed to files before the upgrade with Postscript generated after the upgrade, I think I found the problem. Before the upgrade, Mathematica would download the Courier font with the document. (In all cases I specified ''include Mathematica Fonts'' when printing.) In other words, the epilog in the Postscript file looks something like this:
%%DocumentNeededFonts: Times-Italic
%%+ Helvetica-Oblique
%%+ Helvetica-Bold
%%+ Helvetica
%%+ Times-Roman
%%DocumentSuppliedFonts: Math2Mono-Bold
%%+ Math1Mono-Bold
%%+ Math1Mono
%%+ Times-Italic-ISO
%%+ Courier-ISO
%%+ Math2Mono
%%+ Helvetica-ISO
%%+ Times-Roman-ISO
%%+ Math3-Bold
%%+ Helvetica-Oblique-ISO
%%+ Courier
%%+ Helvetica-Bold-ISO
However, the same notebook printed under RedHat has this as its epilog:
%%DocumentNeededFonts: Times-Italic
%%+ Helvetica-Oblique
%%+ Courier-Bold
%%+ Helvetica-Bold
%%+ Helvetica
%%+ Courier
%%+ Times-Roman
%%DocumentSuppliedFonts: Math2Mono-Bold
%%+ Math1Mono-Bold
%%+ Math1Mono
%%+ Times-Italic-ISO
%%+ Courier-ISO
%%+ Math2Mono
%%+ Helvetica-ISO
%%+ Times-Roman-ISO
%%+ Math3-Bold
%%+ Helvetica-Oblique-ISO
%%+ Courier-Bold-ISO
%%+ Helvetica-Bold-ISO
Note that Courier and Helvetica are now in the DocumentNeededFonts category; as such, they are not downloaded to the printer as part of the document.
Since this is the source of my problem (my saved Postscript output files from before the upgrade still print out fine) because of the custom Mathematica Courier font that has the graphics symbols, how do I force Mathematica to *always* download the Courier font to the printer?
Thanks for your patience. Enjoy!
John M. Linebarger
Lehigh University
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