Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Out of scope
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P2: Important
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4.5.3
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None
Description
Sometimes the selected font on a text item is incompatible with the printer driver, in which case it cannot be selected.
Optimistically, the text is laid out with the selected font, then actually printed with a completely different font, and the results are that all the positions from the layout system are wrong and the result looks bad.
This is not too common on most regular printers and is handled by a hacky workaround in the Windows print engine. It is, however, very visible with the Generic/Text-printer (where the workaround cannot be used because it bases itself on drawing the glyphs as paths instead of actual text.) On this printer the correct font will never be selected.