[Wine] Re: No text shows up when printing with cups-pdf from wine

[Daniel Skorka]

Max Kubierschky <max at knirz.de> wrote:
> When I print to a PDF file on wine via cups-pdf, I see
> the text with Acrobat Reader on Windows, but I don't see
> the text with gpdf on Linux.

That usually is a sign of a malformed PDF file, maybe fonts that were
not embedded or something similar.

> When I print to a PDF file with the same program on
> Windows, I see the text on both platforms.

You use cups-pdf on Windows to print PDF files?
> 
> Must be a font problem. The font I use is Arial Black.
> "apt-get install msttcorefonts" installs Arial Black,
> but it didn't help.

I think that by default PDF uses postscript fonts, not truetype ones.

Daniel