[OS X TeX] Problem with Printing --> Now: Document Types

[Marcus Michalsky]

thx so far, you're right Alan. It seems it is quite a special not  
(only) TeX related problem...

I try your link. Mysterious that Epson wrotes on their site, that no  
major changes were made from Panther to Tiger :-) ^^

But I have another thing. Is there any good doc or can somebody  
explain the document types ?
I mean, what is DVI, PS, PDF, Metafont... How did it all work. Is PDF  
only a container (because it needs the fonts...) Some kind of vector  
graphics ?
Converting all that to each other...
I hope you understand my question...

Thx
Marcus

On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:16 AM, Alan Litchfield wrote:

> Hmm. From reading the rest of your reply the font encoding issue is  
> irrelevant.
>
> I think it is clear that the problem is not related to LaTeX or  
> TeXShop, but
> rather to your printer setup. I assume you have tried deleting the  
> printer
> instance creating a new one from the new drivers you installed.
>
> This page addresses some of the printing issues people have on Mac  
> OS X,
> printing with Ghostscript. They suggest using Gimp Print, which  
> effectively
> prints each page as an image. It is quite old now, but may be  
> useful in
> understanding what the problem is.
> http://www.macwrite.com/criticalmass/x-print-on-mac-os-x-jaguar.php
>
> This page explains a little of what your CUPS printing is doing.  
> Again, it is
> quite old.
> http://www.danka.de/apple-cups-en/
>
> In the Help, the support document about printer drivers states "  
> Some printer
> files included with Mac OS X 10.4 might not be included with  
> previous Mac OS X
> versions, and vice-versa." Which may explain why the older version  
> of X
> worked. However, it also says that the driver "EPSON EPL-5900L  
> 2.11.01" is
> installed with 10.4.
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301175
>
> You could try redirecting your query here, there are people there  
> that deal
> with these kinds of problems more frequently than here.
> http://macosx.com/content/faq.php/c31/Mac-OS-X-Operating- 
> System-104x.html
>
> Cheers
> Alan
>
>
>
> Marcus Michalsky said:
>> Yeah thx, you're right it isn't impressive that this works. But  
>> thx   at
>> all. IT tooks very long to print, but for short docs it goes.
>>
>> Alan, how do I check, what font encoding I use ?
>>
>> Pete, I checked i-installer and choose the option install all fonts
>> (configure only). But still the same thing. When I transfer this    
>> document
>> to the
>> PowerBook with Panther, it works great. Sometimes the last page  
>> is   missing
>> (when I print more sites on a page), but no font problems there.  
>> And by the
>> way, even the same happens on some Powerpoint PDFs from my    
>> Professors or
>> Papers from Dolby and Berkeley etc, on Tiger some
>> fonts are atificially deformed or missing, and on the Powerbook
>> EVERYTHING ok.
>>
>> Yeah George, with Tiger nothing seems to work with the Epson  
>> laser,   but
>> before with Panther I had NO problems !
>>
>> Some time ago I installed the Epson Printer Package from the  
>> Panther   CD on
>> the Tiger Installation, something works then, but only
>> something, still
>> MANY errornous printouts.
>>
>
>
>
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