From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 28 00:46:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42661065672 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:46:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7248FC0A for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.27]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0302C2AD7 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:15:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274CD23DC2D for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:15:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (dslb-094-217-099-017.pools.arcor-ip.net [94.217.99.17]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EAA672C2AD7 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:15:18 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-03.arcor-online.net EAA672C2AD7 Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0S0FICO091430 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:15:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull@lorvorc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0S0FI4i091429 for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:15:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <37358.1264459730@tristatelogic.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox3 printing woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:46:30 -0000 Ronald F. Guilmette 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. 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. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de