Printing question - Cups ipp printer from Windows XP

[Abhinav Gupta]

 On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> Linda wrote:
>
> >>
> > I just played with the fonts, some print correctly, some do not. If you
> > export as a pdf, the pdf prints correctly. Unfortunately a lot of
> > teachers require times new roman which is a font that does not print
> > correctly. If anyone has an idea for a fix it would be great, otherwise
> > I'll just have my kids convert to a pdf first as a work around if they
> > have to use a nonworking font.
> >                                     Thanks
> >                                      Linda
> >
>
>
>
> Sorry I don't have a solution for your real problem.  But I just want to
> check, you are aware that you can install the actual printer driver for
> the printer in Windows instead of the Cups driver?  If you use Samba
> printer sharing to Windows instead of cups, you can even install the
> Windows drivers in Linux so Windows will automatically find and download
> them as needed.
>
> Windows IPP support is.... pathetic at best.  (compared to the printing
> nervana that is Linux and Mac networking.)
>
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I am not sure what's causing the problem or how to fix it but I suggest
making sure that Times New Roman is installed on Ubuntu. Run the following 2
command in the terminal
sudo aptitude install msttcorefonts
sudo fc-cache -fv

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Abhinav Gupta
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