Printing to level 2 postscript

Has anything fundamental changed in !Printers + postscript level 2 driver recently?

I have upgraded the hard drive image on my machines (iMX6, IGEPv5 and Ti), with !Printers now at v. 1.89. I have found that printing to a postscript level 2 laser printer using a number of non-ROM fonts results in the output looking like very blocky heiroglyphics, almost unrecognisable as text. Output to screen, inkjet or SPrinter is normal, only printing to a postscript laser printer is affected. Even Sassoon (supplied in the hard disc image) fails.

Have I screwed up when upgrading the various hard disc image components?

Chris

I had issues with Printers 1.89 after an upgrade and cured it by deleting the Choices.Printers directory in !Boot and reinstalling each printer driver again.

I did not have the same error as you but one call was deprecated in 1.89 so may be worth a try.

Thanks for the suggestion, Doug. Unfortunately, problem remains.

Has MakePSFont been changed? Try reverting to an older version.

Has MakePSFont been changed? Try reverting to an older version.

That would appear to be the case. Sprow sent me a new test version, and that seems to have fixed the problem.

Welcome back to 1999. ;-)

Welcome back to 1999. ;-)

ROL era printers development lost in the dust?

There’s been no significant changes to MakePSFont this century. Don’t know what Sprow’s updated.

There’s been no significant changes to MakePSFont this century. Don’t know what Sprow’s updated.

That’s as maybe, but as a mere user, all I can say is that something became broken, and the new module fixed it (see ROOL bug ticket #447).

I should have said “There’s been no functionality changes”. It’s always possible to break something just by looking at it of course.