Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:56:15 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-mozilla@freebsd.org Subject: Need help with major printing malfunction Message-ID: <35264.1251878175@tristatelogic.com>
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Greetings, I recently freshened up my installed version of Firefox from whatever crusty old version I was running to firefox-3.5.1,1. (I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE by the way.) Anyway, ever since that ``upgrade'' a few old problems that had annoyed me for a long time went away, but a couple of new ones emerged. The one that's most annoying is that now, whenever I print anything from within Firefox, the text portion of whever comes out on my printer is utterly unreadable/illegable. I'm just guessing, but it looks to me like whatever font is being used is just wrong and/or (perhaps) Firefox is trying to emulate BOLDFACE font with overstrikes or something. Anyway, this is really a very major major problem for me, and I'm sorta hoping that somebody here will take pity on me and give me some clues about how I might be able to debug this problem. I don't even know where to begin looking for the problem, so any pointers would be greatly appreciated. (Note: My printer is an old HP Laserjet 5MP. It speaks Postscript and... I think... HP PCL 5... or maybe 6. Note also that I was never very fond of all of the complexity of the FreeBSD lpr subsystem... it always seemed like total overkill for a one-user system... so I hacked up my own little Perl script that I call "printit" that just sends whatever it is given to /dev/lp0. I used that for printing, rather than the lpr command. In the past, Mozilla/Firefox has always handed by little script pure Postscript... which worked out nicely since my printer groks that... and so I'm kind of assuming that Firefox is still converting pages to Postscript whenever I ask it to print something, but frankly, I'm not even sure of this anymore.) Again, any help or pointers would be appreciated. Please reply on-list, because otherwise, my tragically hostile and inept spam-filtering here may prevent me from ever seeing your response. Thanks in advance. Regards, rfg P.S. Before the ``upgrade'' to 3.5.1, things used to print just fine... well... the text portions did anyway.home | help
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