Last time, again, I got a problem with printing documents on my Linux Mint (OS based on Ubuntu). All the documents I printed were missing umlauts (German characters ä ö ü). In past I had the same problem, when my printed documents were missing Polish characters (like Ł). This problem lies in missing or improperly configured fonts. Below you can find how to fix them.
The first thing to try is to install missing fonts. The first set of fonts to try are the Microsoft fonts, as most likely your OS is missing them. You can install them with the following command:
You can also try to install other fonts, by search for “font” in Synaptic.
If it doesn’t help, reset your fonts configuration:
If you was able to print documents properly in the past, the command above most likely will solve the problem.
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when am printing from ubuntu 16.04 any printout is coming with shadow like small barcode
There may be some other issue with the program you use for printing. It seems that this issue is very common with PDF files. Try to get a program called “xpdf” (sudo apt-get install xpdf), it’s an old but reliable PDF viewer. Try to print from it and see if everything is allright.
Didn’t work in my case. Any other ideas?
I’m here second time to fix it for a friend :-) Thanks for the time to write this instruction!
Perfekt worked for me