From: Willi Egger via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>
Subject: Re: LMTX generates PDFs with non-working fonts on real printers
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:30:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <761ED3C2-86A8-43FF-851A-25D6E5DBD40D@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h70ach72.fsf@vuxu.org>
Now! I am astonished about this blog! Super that you, Leah and Hans, insisted to find out what the culprit was! Thank you both so much for your effort!
Kind regards
Willi
> On 11 Oct 2022, at 21:07, Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>
> Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> writes:
>
>> On 10/9/2022 8:03 AM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>> I use LuaMetaTeX 2.10 20220918 + ConTeXt LMTX 2022.09.11.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a tiny test document, I disabled PDF compression but it also
>>>> doesn't work with the default settings.
>>>>
>>>> \setupbackend[level=0,compresslevel=0]
>>>> \starttext
>>>> Just a line of text.
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> When I print this "directly" (i.e. sending the raw PDF to the printer)
>>>> on a Ricoh MP3053 or on a Samsung CLP-680DW, I just get an empty page.
>>> Just to add some more data points, I tested the attached MkXL file
>>> on
>>> two printers, and the file printed perfectly on both.
>>> Printer 1:
>>> Brother HL-3170CDW
>>> Printed via running "cat test.mkxl.pdf | nc Colour-Printer.local 9100"
>>> Printer 2:
>>> HP M227f LaserJet
>>> Printed from the PDF file on a USB stick
>>> Neither printer is anything fancy; they're both fairly
>>> inexpensive home
>>> laser printers. I've got a much older Brother laser printer that I may be
>>> able to test with next week.
>>> Sorry I can't be of more help.
>> Leah and I are zooming in on the issue. It might relate to wrong font
>> matrix default behavior in the pdf printer driver, and GS got a fix
>> for that long ago, so maybe old printers with not-updated drivers can
>> be affected.
>>
>> Once we're confident that we can catch it Leah (who does the low level
>> introspective testing with viewers, printers and tools) likely will
>> report on it and there will be a test file for users to test if what
>> we do is okay before we apply the safeguard.
>
> There's a write up now on the issue:
> https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2022/10/50-blank-pages-or-black-box-debugging-of-pdf-rendering-in-printers.html
>
> --
> Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> https://leahneukirchen.org/
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-03 17:17 Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-03 18:57 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-05 16:02 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-10-05 21:25 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-03 21:57 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-03 22:34 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 2:16 ` Angel M Alganza via ntg-context
2022-10-04 7:33 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 10:53 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 11:54 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 12:35 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 12:50 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 12:54 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 15:52 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 16:29 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 12:59 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 15:44 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-10-04 16:11 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-04 17:23 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-10-04 11:59 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-10-04 13:21 ` Angel M Alganza via ntg-context
2022-10-04 16:03 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-10-04 16:09 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-06 10:31 ` Ulrike Fischer via ntg-context
2022-10-06 11:23 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-06 12:42 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-06 14:23 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-06 16:42 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-09 6:03 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-10-09 10:08 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-11 19:07 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-12 4:41 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2022-10-12 4:56 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-10-12 11:14 ` Leah Neukirchen via ntg-context
2022-10-12 22:50 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-10-13 17:41 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2022-10-13 18:36 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-10-13 20:35 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-13 20:32 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-10-13 19:30 ` Willi Egger via ntg-context [this message]
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