Poor quality when printing

["Harms, Flemming Nickolas" <fl...@capgemini.com>]

Greetings



I have problems with the quality when I sent my FO directly to the
printer. The font "Times Roman" and other fonts are not very pretty when
they are printed. If I create a PDF file it look fine.



Below is the code I use to send the FO to the printer. The PrintRenderer
class is from the servlet example from fop-0.20.5.



                        PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();

                        page = pj.pageDialog(page);

                        if (pj.printDialog()) {



                                     PrintRenderer renderer = new
PrintRenderer(pj);

                                     driver.setInputSource(new
InputSource(convertXML2FO(page)));

                                     driver.setRenderer(renderer);

                                   

                                    try {

                                                driver.run();

                                    } catch (IOException e) {

                                                e.printStackTrace();

                                    } catch (FOPException e) {

                                                e.printStackTrace();

                                    }

                        }



Any ideas why the quality is so bad when I print it?



Regards,

Flemming





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Re: Poor quality when printing

[JB...@s-s-t.com]

One possibility is that your printer is substituting fonts. If your 
printer's fonts are very different from those specified in the PDF, the 
change can be very noticeable (and often very unattractive). If your 
printer has a setting to not substitute, try that. If the printer has such 
a setting, it will (usually) treat all the text as graphics, which will 
adversely effect speed, but you may get the output you want.

Of course, it could be many other things, too.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)

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