[OS X TeX] Problem with Printing

[Marcus Michalsky]

Well,
OK I have not the money to buy a post script printer, and the idea  
"just buy a new one" doesn't fit my Thougts...

I viewed the same document in both, Preview and Adobe Reader 7.0.5.  
Both look fine (100% perfect). But when I print them, preview prints
everything OK but the math symbols are missing. When I print it with  
Adobe Reader I get many artificial phenomenas ;-) The Order of  
letters is
not right, some of them are printed over each other, some greater,  
some smaller, some not at all.

Another Question was, what driver I use. First I used the build in  
from MAC OS X (after USB Connect the printer was recognized). But  
after the
misbehaviour I loaded the EPSON driver, and on the EPSON page it is  
said, that no really great changes are made, when switching from Panther
to Tiger, but why then this great difference ? Ok I will try to  
reinstall all fonts like Pete said.

I am sorry to say this, but on the Windoof Machine from my Dad with  
MikTeX and EPSON driver it works fine (maybe the only one thing I've  
ever seen
working on this old prehistoric thing :-)

Any other Ideas than try to reinstall the fonts ?

Thx so far
Marcus Michalsky

On Nov 15, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 15.11.2005 um 00:28 schrieb Marcus Michalsky:
>
>> Both tries are made with a EPSON EPL-5900L laser printer connected  
>> via USB. (not a Post-Script printer as far as I know)
>>
>
> A black&white printer without built-in PostScript is something like  
> a piece of scrap. (My not so humble opinion.)
>
>> Do you have any Ideas ? Are there FONTS missing ? But when I view  
>> the document the Math Symbols are there.
>>
>
> This is my idea: put both of your Macs side by side and lauch i- 
> Installer on both. Now choose "Configure Only" and pay attention  
> that both are set-up the same way -- and make corrections. I  
> presume the mistake happend when you were asked whether TeX should  
> download all fonts. And it has to, since the printer has no fonts  
> built-in.
>
> On the command line you could also invoke these three:
>
> 	sudo updmap-sys --nohash --nomkmap --setoption dvipsDownloadBase35  
> true
> 	sudo updmap-sys --nohash --nomkmap --setoption  
> pdftexDownloadBase14 true
> 	sudo updmap-sys --nohash --nomkmap --setoption  
> dvipdfmDownloadBase14 true
>
> I think the best would be to use the Latin Modern fonts instead of  
> Computer Modern (\usepackage{lmodern}). They are available to the  
> system too, so there is hope that CUPS or the EPSON driver will  
> find these fonts and would rasterize them.
>
> --
> Mit friedvollen Grüßen
>
>   Pete
>
> The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they  
> start selling vacuum cleaners.
>
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