I have an OKI MC352dn printer.
Printing images and image pdfs works fine and the results are satisfactory.
However when I print certain pdf files, for example some mathematical articles, the font changes, and the output is completely different from the original pdf. Also, some QR-looking codes are also printed as a garbled mess.
Changing a .pdf to a .png fixes the problem, however this is tedious and I'd prefer not to do it.
I noticed that the font used was Courier which is the PCL emulation default font.
I honestly have no idea what that means, and what PCL emulation is, but I found it in the printer admin settings.
Is it possible to change the settings so that the printer always prints the pdf correctly, and doesn't use any of it's default settings?
I have updated the firmware and installed all drivers, but the problem persists, even if sending the print job from a different device.
EDIT:
Here's a preview of the a .pdf file
And here's the printed output
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Font "DIN Condensed" letter spacing on ios is huge (exactly one previous letter width extra). This happens with all browsers (Safari and Google) on all ios devices, with original ttf, and with font-squirrel generated woff as well.
How can I fix this?
(Tried so far as well - renaming font-file to .otf)
This is the site: https://itstestlab.eu/
#font-face{font-family:'FontName';src:url('/f/f.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/f/f.woff') format('woff')}
This is the closest I got to importing fonts and having no issues with Chrome, Firefox, IE10, Edge, Safari back to version 5 upwards and iPhone 5S with original iOS, upwards.
It also solved Apple's DRM (copyright protection) issues with other font formats.
I use FontSquirrel to convert fonts into other formats, and also "normalize" them, inlcuding mis-sized, mis-defined glyphs. There are a lot of options, but going the pre-defined "usual" conversion should work.
EDIT: I have looked into your CSS and found that the last rule of /cms/css/cms_normalise.scss applies some non-standard stuff to your fonts. It looks like an overklill of a reset.css. I am not sure if that causes the problem, since I am unable to reproduce it, but you might want to check it out..
Included web version from Typekit CDN and it works from there.
Seems that this is some kind of a copy protection system. The original file client sent to me was for desktop use only.
Of late, I have observed that pdf generated by latex files are unreadable in certain email browsers (when previewing the attachment in Outlook) as well as the printed hard copy especially math symbols like inner products, integral etc overlap with each other making the file ugly and unreadable. Surprisingly the same file looks perfectly fine when viewed using the ShareLatex built-in pdf browser as well as the desktop version of Adobe Reader.
ShareLatex documentation suggest switching the PDF viewer from built-in to native. Upon changing to native, even the browser version had unreadable characters.
[https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Kb/Changing_PDF_viewer]
So, I would like to know if there is better way to compile the tex file in Sharelatex so that its readable across platforms and in print.
Most of the "pdf generation from tex" related issues posted on StackOverflow point out problems with viewing images. As such the pdf files I am generating don't contain any images.
Thanks in advance !
AFAIK there's not a single build-in PDF viewer (browser, e-mail client, ...) that works well. But what you could test is if \usepackage{lmodern} makes things better ...
I am using ZebraDesigner to create labels and save them as .zpl, files, then manually editing the zpl code to customize it further, and then save it in the printer's directory in onboard flash memory.
I see the .zpl files, listed with their sizes, in the flash directory, but the files are blank when opened, or sometimes contain text belonging to another file. If I try to paste new code into the file in flash, I'm unable to save it; meaning, I click save, and the web pages merely changes the file extension from ".zpl" to "---", then if I save again, then I get an error the script could not be saved.
I've been unable to get sufficient information nor resolution by contacting Zebra or looking at the product documentation. Advice would be appreciated.
I'm generating a markdown document using my Rails 4.2 app which includes images that are on the same server (in the public folder).
Using pandoc (pandoc-ruby 1.0.0), I want to convert the document into various formats, especially HTML (to preview it in the browser) and DOCX (to download it).
The preview in the browser works perfect. But when converting to DOCX, the images aren't included. I guess this is due to multiple requests to referenced images while pandoc is generating the document.
I have already experimented with setting allow_concurrency to true, but this didn't solve the problem. Also, it happens on both the development and the production environment (while in development, it takes a long time, and in production it doesn't - maybe due to some differences in timeout limits?).
I have already found a way to solve my problem by not referencing the images using an URL, but by embedding it as base64 string into the document. But this for sure can't be the solution of choice, as it tends to bloat up the HTML document a lot. Also, on production, I already get RuntimeError (Stack space overflow: current size 8388608 bytes) from pretty small embedded images. So I have to find a real solution.
Reference the images by file path instead of url if they are on the same server.
I have an application that prints by generating text files with embedded printer codes, then basically just copies the file to the printer to print. I need to take that print file and convert it to an image - just as if it was printed then scanned.
My first thought was to setup a printer with a postscript printer driver attached to a file port, and then run the result through ghostscript to create a tiff, but it isn't working.
Any ideas?
The printer codes are probably PCL. Maybe pcl-parser could serve as a start for your own tool to do this? There also seems to be a commercial product called PCLXForm.
Edit: Also investigate GhostPCL.