Re: Bug in printing?


Subject: Re: Bug in printing?
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 12:56:21 CDT


On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

> Applied your patch. I still get the same result. Perhaps it is a RH7 iconv
> byte order problem??

 Very strange.. I repeat that I tested your document and got u with dieresis
 instead of small circle everywhere (no small circles at all).

 I don't think that it's iconv byte order problem...
 What is your $LANG and $LC_ALL set to or what is your native charset? Most
 probably it's ISO8859-1.

> Dom
>
>
> >From: Vlad Harchev <hvv@hippo.ru>
> >To: Dom Lachowicz <cinamod@hotmail.com>
> >CC: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> >Subject: Re: Bug in printing?
> >Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:04:52 +0500 (SAMST)
> >
> >On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes, this change in behaviour is due to megapatch, I'm sorry.
> > It's due to the changes in xap_UnixFont.cpp:getMetricsData() - I disabled
> > the use of 'FontMappingTable' (association between adobe glyph name and
> > unicode value), and since font shipped with AW don't have their glyphs
> > ordered as letters in ISO-8859-1, this problem arises (characters with
> >value
> > > 252 are substituted with small circle, like u with dieresis).
> >
> > I'm attaching a fix for this. This fix restores by-name mapping of
> >characters
> > if current encoding is iso8859-1 or cp1252. I've tried this text document
> >-
> > all characters printed fine.
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have an ABW document with German umlauts (üäö) and the s-set(ß). When
> >I
> > > print, I get is this character: "°"
> > >
> > > This didn't happen before the megapatch. Anyone have any ideas as to why
> > > this is happening or possible fixes?
> > >
> > > http://198.139.111.101/output.ps
> > > http://198.139.111.101/German215-Aufsatz.abw
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Dom
> >
> > Best regards,
> > -Vlad
> ><< p1 >>
>
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad



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