CUPS and HP LaserJet 4V printer: variable width font becomes fixed width

[Rob Lahaye]

Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:59:10PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> 
>>Since I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (with cups-1.1.18), printing has
>>a problem with variable width fonts. Variable width fonts are printed
>>out as fixed width fonts; so text looks ugly and runs over the lines.
> 
> 
> Are you using an "up-to-date" version of ghostscript?  If so, that is   
> the problem.  The last version of ghostscript that does not exhibit     
> this problem is ghostscript-gnu-7.05_5.  I am not sure about the        
> version number of ghostscript-afpl but recent versions exhibit this     
> problem.                                                                

Yes I was up-to-date with ghostscript and that indeed was the problem.
I forced the deinstall of my ghostscript-gnu-7.07, and installed instead
from the packages, version 7.05_4.

My printing problem has gone now!
Thanks.

Is the origin of the problem located? Will it be fixed in the next
release of ghostscript-gnu? Has this problem been reported to the
ghostscript-gnu developer community?

Rob.