Problem printing monochrome images.

[Maf. King]

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Hi List.

I hope you can offer me some suggestions for an elusive problem I am havi=
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with printing under KDE.

Firstly, I want to say that I am reasonably certain that it is to do with=
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the postscript produced by the KDE apps, not the kprinter app per se.  If=
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there is a better forum for me to ask this question, then please point me=
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to it, and sorry for bothering you!

I cannot print grayscale images - either as grayscale or levels of gray i=
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full colour image.

I noticed it first when producing a fax cover in Kword, using an embedded=
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grayscale bmp logo image.  the page was fine, except the logo area which=20
came out blank.

Further investigation showed that I could not print, or preview the image=
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from Kword, Konqueror, or pixieplus, nor if I converted to a jpg. (which =
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why i think the problem is in the postscript generated by the apps)

As soon as I put some colour into the images (ie not a gray level) I got=20
some output, but only in the region of the colour.

There are some test files, both bmp and jpg, all in RGB, and the output=20
postscript files from "kprinter -> print to postscript file" available at=
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http://www.chilwell.net/~maf  (and a tarball for easy download ;-))

I spent all day yesterday trying to sort this out, and frankly it has got=
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me.  Any ideas where to look / tweak?

I am using SuSE 8.1, with all published updates,
KDE 3.0.4  (but with the SuSE 3.0.5 security update installed)
Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop - P3-650


Thanks in advance,
Maf. King
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