Firefox3 printing woes
Ronald F. Guilmette
Hello,
Would any of you chaps happen to have any suggestions for solving the
firefox3 garbled fonts printing problem?
I've been living with this problem for quite a long time now... probably
more than a year... just by continuing to have both firefox3 _and_ firefox2
installed on my system. (I use the latter whenever I know I'm going to
need to print something.)
It appears that I'm not the only one who has ever experienced this problem.
(Far from it, apparently.) It's been discussed at length and was the subject
of PR #ports/128694, and also, apparently, Mozillia bug #411831.
I've tried the various suggested fixes, to wit:
1)
Adding:
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPiaxmaps" "True"
to my xorg.conf file
2)
setting my LANG environment variable to en_US.ISO8859-1 (it had been
defaulted to the value "C")
3)
performing a print-preview first, before actually printing
None of these things actually helped any. :-(
I'm very eager to find a solution for this problem, so any suggestions would
be appreciated. (I'm not even sure why ports/128694 was closed. It's not at
all clear, since there appears to have been no definitive resolution to the
issue.)
Please reply on-list, elsewise my dumb spam filtering may not allow me to see
your reply. Thanks.
Regards,
rfg
Jeremy Messenger
<r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Would any of you chaps happen to have any suggestions for solving the
> firefox3 garbled fonts printing problem?
What is video driver you are using? Just wondering if it has to do with it.
By the way, all gecko ports have new maintainer. We don't maintain this
port anymore. You should contact to the new maintainer.
It was closed because the reporter has not response back. We will close
any PR if the reporter isn't willing or don't have time to help when all
of us can't reproduce it.
Cheers,
Mezz
> not at
> all clear, since there appears to have been no definitive resolution to
> the
> issue.)
>
> Please reply on-list, elsewise my dumb spam filtering may not allow me
> to see
> your reply. Thanks.
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
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Christian Weisgerber
> Would any of you chaps happen to have any suggestions for solving the
> firefox3 garbled fonts printing problem?
The problem is that various web sites (e.g. aircanada.com) apparently
specify fonts narrowly by name, and if a commercial font such as
"Arial" isn't available, Firefox somehow ends up substituting these
terrible bitmapped fonts. I don't know why this only affects
printing.
OpenBSD works around this by adding this etc/fonts/conf.d file to map
common commercial fonts to their Bitstream Vera equivalents:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/lib/fontconfig/conf.d/31-nonmst.conf?rev=1.2
I guess many people simply install the Microsoft fonts
(ports/x11-fonts/webfonts), which I understand also solves this.
> I've tried the various suggested fixes, to wit:
>
> 1)
> Adding:
> Option "XaaNoOffscreenPiaxmaps" "True"
> to my xorg.conf file
>
> 2)
> setting my LANG environment variable to en_US.ISO8859-1 (it had been
> defaulted to the value "C")
>
> 3)
> performing a print-preview first, before actually printing
This is all obvious nonsense.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
Jerry
Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> articulated:
> I guess many people simply install the Microsoft fonts
> (ports/x11-fonts/webfonts), which I understand also solves this.
It does, at least on my system. It is by far the easiest method I have
found to alleviate this type of problem. It also installs several other
potentially useful fonts on your system.
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Jerry
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Christian Weisgerber
> The problem is that various web sites (e.g. aircanada.com) apparently
> specify fonts narrowly by name, and if a commercial font such as
> "Arial" isn't available, Firefox somehow ends up substituting these
> terrible bitmapped fonts. I don't know why this only affects
> printing.
Actually, I guess what happens is that the bitmapped fonts look
fine on the screen, but they don't scale well for printer dpi
resolutions.
Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <hjqkum$2p8s$1...@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote:
>Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
>> Would any of you chaps happen to have any suggestions for solving the
>> firefox3 garbled fonts printing problem?
>
>The problem is that various web sites (e.g. aircanada.com) apparently
>specify fonts narrowly by name, and if a commercial font such as
>"Arial" isn't available, Firefox somehow ends up substituting these
>terrible bitmapped fonts.
Obviously, that's kinda dumb.
>I don't know why this only affects printing.
Yes. That _is_ mighty strange that it knows how to propery render the fonts
on-screen, but then forgets how to do that when it comes to printing.
>OpenBSD works around this by adding this etc/fonts/conf.d file to map
>common commercial fonts to their Bitstream Vera equivalents:
>http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/lib/fontconfig/conf.d/31-nonmst
>.conf?rev=1.2
>
>I guess many people simply install the Microsoft fonts
>(ports/x11-fonts/webfonts), which I understand also solves this.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Seriously, I can't thank you enough for
these two suggestions. This problem has been causing me serious annoyance
for at least a year now, and none of the other suggested fixes that I found
on the web worked.
An interesting observation: My primary test case was the home page of a
web site that some other fellow (in the UK) had seen and that was causing
him the same problem, i.e. http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/
So anyway, I first just implemented the second of your two suggested fixes
above. That caused the text of www.thepensionservice.gov.uk itself to print
properly, *however* (and very bizzarely) the firefox-added headers & footers
that were also printed on the same page were still looking quite awful. (Same
problem... horrid font.)
So after that, I also implemented the first of your two suggested fixes
(adding a new conf.d/31-nonmst.conf file) and then tried printing again.
Volia! Now _everything_ is printing properly... both the web page text
itself and also the firefox-added headers & footers.
I am a very happy camper, and I thank you again most humbly.
>> I've tried the various suggested fixes, to wit:
>> ...
>This is all obvious nonsense.
Yes, apparently all those other suggested fixes were indeed quite useless.
Regards,
rfg
P.S. I'm going to submit a PR on this. I guess that whoever reviews that
PR can just close it if the problem has already been addressed. (But at
least the Proper Solution will make it into the Official Record.)