Subject: Re: printer spooling...
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 10:20:22 EST
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Richard Goldberg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Our lab has lots of Macs with a sun server running netatalk for file
> sharing. We have 4 printers set up to accept print jobs directly from
> the macs over apple-talk. We would like to move the printers onto the
> net-atalk server to keep things centralized.
>
> We put them in the papd file and it generally works fine, with the
> exception of a few computers. One running OS 8.1 and one running OSX
> (current beta). We think the problem might have something to do with the
> print jobs needing extra fonts.
>
> Here's a question: How does the spooling process deal with downloading
> fonts to the printer? (I.e. the fonts are on the client computer, the
> printer finds out when it gets the document from the server that it
> needs a couple extra fonts from the client computer, but now its getting
> its info from a spool file on the server, rather than from the client
> computer.
Unfortunately, the print spooler is not as smart as one would hope. :)
It does not have any fonts stored on the server to download to the
printer, and it isn't actually the program talking to the printer. Papd
just hands the job off to the unix printing software (lpd, lprng, etc),
and that software doesn't deal with fonts either.
If your macs have been setup correctly with printer information, they
should already know which fonts the printer needs and include them in the
print job. There is also an option on the mac's print dialog box to set
when the mac will download fonts to the printer. You should check this
setting. You'll want the middle selection, something like "Downloaded
Needed Fonts Only".
Andy
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