Can't print to PDF from Thunderbird

[Dave Rado]

Hi

Whenever I try to print an email in Thunderbird to the Acrobat PDF
driver, the Acrobat print driver fails to print and creates the
following log file:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
Cambria not found, using Courier.
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%%

Stack:
[92 33 92 50 33 0]
(
)


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I don't get this problem printing from any other application apart from
Thunderbird, and I can print Thunderbird emails to conventional printers
without problems.

The problem seems to be something to do with the Cambria font, although
I haven't ever consciously chosen that font in Thunderbird, and have no
idea how to change it. I have noticed, though, that when running the
spellchecker in a Thunderbird email, it sometimes comes up with Cambria
as an "Unknown Word" even though the email itself doesn't contain the
word anywhere! So I imagine the two issues are somehow related.

Any idea how I can get rid of this problem - e.g. by getting rid of
whatever reference there is in all my emails to the Cambria font, which
I have no desire to use in any case?

Dave

[David E. Ross]

Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1 (x64)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/38.3.0

Get and install doPDF from <http://www.dopdf.com/>.

I have Adobe Acrobat (the "writer") 7.1.0, for which "print to PDF"
drivers do not exist for Windows 7. I have not upgraded because that
costs money that I cannot justify spending since all other capabilities
work, just not "print to PDF".

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[Keith Nuttle]

There is no reason to spend a lot of money for PDF print drivers. The
one I use routinely is the CuteWriter. I also use version 1.7 of
SourceForge's PDFCreator. Both of these are free and can be found with
a Search.

NOTE: Always download software from the primary website. If you
download from a third party site, then you can get a lot of undesireable
things in your downloads.

[Mike Easter]

Dave Rado wrote:

> Whenever I try to print an email in Thunderbird to the Acrobat PDF
> driver, the Acrobat print driver fails to print and creates the
> following log file:

> Cambria not found, using Courier.

> %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
>

> I don't get this problem printing from any other application apart
> from Thunderbird, and I can print Thunderbird emails to conventional
> printers without problems.
>
> The problem seems to be something to do with the Cambria font,
> although I haven't ever consciously chosen that font in Thunderbird,
> and have no idea how to change it. I have noticed, though, that when
> running the spellchecker in a Thunderbird email, it sometimes comes
> up with Cambria as an "Unknown Word" even though the email itself
> doesn't contain the word anywhere! So I imagine the two issues are
> somehow related.
>
> Any idea how I can get rid of this problem - e.g. by getting rid of
> whatever reference there is in all my emails to the Cambria font, which
> I have no desire to use in any case?

The only place I find cambria mentioned in about:config is
font.mathfont-family

On my linux system, it does not appear in the Preferences Display Font
choices or advanced. It might on some other system's font choice for
display.

There is an extension which is supposed to give greater print font
control but I don't know how it relates to Adobe's print to pdf
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/printingtools/


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[Ron K.]

Cambria was introduced with Windows Vista, so your not likely to have it
with any OS other than Windows.
You can try to purchase the font from Microsoft or the designer which is Agfa.
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[Dave Pyles]

There is still a free download of the Cambria font here:
http://font.downloadatoz.com/font,58593,cambria.html

and here:
http://ufonts.com/download/cambria/108968.html

Dave Pyles

[Dave Rado]

Hi Mike

On 07/10/2015 18:35, Mike Easter wrote:
> Dave Rado wrote:
>
>> Whenever I try to print an email in Thunderbird to the Acrobat PDF
>> driver, the Acrobat print driver fails to print and creates the
>> following log file:
>
>> Cambria not found, using Courier.
>
>> %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
>>
>> I don't get this problem printing from any other application apart
>> from Thunderbird, and I can print Thunderbird emails to conventional
>> printers without problems.
>>
>> The problem seems to be something to do with the Cambria font,
>> although I haven't ever consciously chosen that font in Thunderbird,
>> and have no idea how to change it. I have noticed, though, that when
>> running the spellchecker in a Thunderbird email, it sometimes comes
>> up with Cambria as an "Unknown Word" even though the email itself
>> doesn't contain the word anywhere! So I imagine the two issues are
>> somehow related.
>>
>> Any idea how I can get rid of this problem - e.g. by getting rid of
>> whatever reference there is in all my emails to the Cambria font, which
>> I have no desire to use in any case?
>
> The only place I find cambria mentioned in about:config is
> font.mathfont-family

Deleting Cambria from all the mathfont-family values has fixed the
problem! Thanks. Weird though. I don't understand why Thunderbird should
need to specify a mathsfont family in any case - surely one should be
able to simply use whatever fonts are installed in one's operating
system - so I don't see why clearing those values should cause me any
problems in the long run ... fingers crossed. If anyone knows a reason
why those values are needed, please let me know though.

Dave

[Dave Rado]

Hi Ron

On 07/10/2015 19:36, Ron K. wrote:

> Cambria was introduced with Windows Vista, so your not likely to have it
> with any OS other than Windows.
> You can try to purchase the font from Microsoft or the designer which is
> Agfa.

But I don't see why I should have to.

Dave

[Dave Rado]

On 07/10/2015 21:49, Dave Pyles wrote:

>> Cambria was introduced with Windows Vista, so your not likely to have it
>> with any OS other than Windows.
>> You can try to purchase the font from Microsoft or the designer which is
>> Agfa.
>
> There is still a free download of the Cambria font here:
> http://font.downloadatoz.com/font,58593,cambria.html
>
> and here:
> http://ufonts.com/download/cambria/108968.html
>
> Dave Pyles

Actually I *do* have Cambria installed (I've just checked in Control
Panel -> Fonts). I'm running Windows 7. Seriously weird. As mentioned in
my reply to Mike, deleting all references to Cambria in About:Config has
fixed my problem. I don't see why About:Config needs to specify a
mathsfont in any case, rather than just using whatever fonts the user
specifies for their emails under Format + Font. Any ideas?

Dave

[Ron K.]

The scientific math symbols are special and not all Unicode encoded fonts
have the math support range supported. Cambria is marked up in Windows as
a Pro Math supporting font.

[Dave Rado]

I know that - I'm asking why *Thunderbird* should specify the font in
its config manager instead of leaving it to the user to choose the font
they want, and to the OS to display it, as most other applications do.
If the user wants to use Cambria - or any other maths font for that
matter - they can specify it under Format + Font. I see no reason for it
to be specified in About:Config.

Dave

[Mike Easter]

Dave Rado wrote:
> I know that - I'm asking why *Thunderbird* should specify the font in
> its config manager instead of leaving it to the user to choose the font
> they want, and to the OS to display it, as most other applications do.
> If the user wants to use Cambria - or any other maths font for that
> matter - they can specify it under Format + Font.

Altho' this is beyond my ken, I believe the about:com default
configuration was more about MathML than Cambria per se. There's
something to be learned in that regard from the wp article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML The quality of rendering of MathML
in a browser depends on the installed fonts. The STIX Fonts project have
released a comprehensive set of mathematical fonts under an open
license. The Cambria Math font supplied with Microsoft Windows had a
slightly more limited support.

--
Mike Easter

[WaltS48]

Probably for the mathematicians and other scientists that compose
messages in HTML, and use Insert > Math to use MathML.

I'm not sure when Thunderbird started supporting MathML, but it looks
like it may have been 31.0.

[992127 – Add a LaTeX-to-MathML dialog box to the mail
composer]<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992127>

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