Re: [Sheflug] Printing in Ubuntu

[Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > but when I print a pdf file in adobe , or the document viewer, the
> > printing is only in draft quality.
> > there must be a setting some where but I can not find, can anyone
> > help?
> 
> Have you tried 'su apt-cache search fonts' ?  You might also try 'su 
> apt-get install msttcorefonts'.  You might need to make changes 
> to /etc/apt/sources.list to get the second one to work...
> 
> http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper
> 
> You might be better off switching to Ubuntu 7.04 which is said to be 
> stable. 

"su" in Ubuntu is only enabled for superusers (to let them become
regular users). To do things as a superuser use "sudo" instead (for
commandline things) or gksudo (for graphical programs, to make sure
root's settings are used and not your own, which could end up becoming
owned by root and inaccessible to your regular user).

Also, apt-cache doesn't need superuser privileges, only apt-get does,
but Applications > Add/Remove is easier to use anyway (or if you need th
power System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager, or if you have
no graphics and are stuck in a console "sudo aptitude").

Making changes to package sources can be done with System >
Administration > Software Sources.

Personally I don't know what the actual problem might be (and therefore
cannot offer a solution) because I do not use printers much (I usually
save things as PDF and use the University's printers), but I see where
Richard is coming from with the Microsoft fonts in relation to the Adobe
Acrobat Reader.

As you might be able to tell, I help out people with Ubuntu quite a bit.
I would recommend the help Wiki at https://help.ubuntu.com/community or
the IRC channel #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net.

Since 6.06 should still have support until 2009 you shouldn't need to
upgrade (unsupported releases generally don't get much help in the
chatroom other than "upgrade", and article sections specific to them
usually get removed from the help wiki to maintain simplicity) but I
find that any problems I encounter are usually fixed by the next release
(make sure to file a bug report at www.launchpad.net if it is not fixed
though). Since upgrading would involve moving up to 6.10 then to 7.04 I
would suggest trying it out in 6.10 first and sticking to that if it
works, since I have had hardware problems in 7.04 (some SATA
experimenting in the kernel has forced me to disable all power
management for my laptop :( )

Hope it helps,
Chris


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