first, thanks for your help

- I tried several fonts on different OSs but in all cases the font character positioning is wrong ( additional spaces appear between characters)

- after the result you give to me, I tried to compile the same application with Qt version 4.7.4 on windows 7, and I got a very good result pretty like the one you sent to me. looks like the problem is in the printing support of the latest Qt !

thanks again.