[OS X TeX] weird rule behavior

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Roberto Avanzi wrote:

> I also had this problem - that of disappearing lines (hrules and  
> vrules).
>
> This morning I decided to take out my OS X leopard installation disk  
> and force reinstall the HP printer drivers using Pacifist.  Only the  
> HP ones.   Nothing else.
>
> A document, that printed incorrectly a few minutes before, now  
> prints perfectly on an HP Laserjet 4005c.
>
> Of course Software Update now reminds me to update the HP printer  
> drivers, but I am not a fool ;)
>
> Roberto


Howdy,

Does that printer have an internal Post Script (Clone) Interpreter? If  
so, I'd try to use a PS driver for best printing results.

As an example, I've got a Brother HL-5250DN monochrome laser printer  
(reliable, cheap and noisy) that has a PS Clone internally. In  
printing the documentation for the fourier fonts (do

texdoc fourier

in Terminal) the \wideparen and \widering examples didn't print using  
the standard CUPS driver but printed fine, along with everything else,  
with the Brother BR-Script3 driver.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)