Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:29:55 +0000 From: Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/128694: www/firefox3 - Firefox 3 corrupts PostScript printer fonts Message-ID: <49529BC3.7030005@incunabulum.net> In-Reply-To: <op.umooc8xo9aq2h7@localhost> References: <200812042109.mB4L9lk6069144@freefall.freebsd.org> <493A3C1F.6000009@incunabulum.net> <493A5DA0.7040100@FreeBSD.org> <493D1A03.9090507@FreeBSD.org> <op.umoj2eua9aq2h7@localhost> <49528AFA.8050704@incunabulum.net> <op.umooc8xo9aq2h7@localhost>
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Jeremy Messenger wrote: > ... > No problem. I have went to http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/ and I > can't reproduce it. It prints fine, but it does not print image in > middle that has lizard or some kind of repitle. Maybe it's normal as > it's different from Opera. But both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 show the > same result. Are your Firefox 3 in non-english (custom LANG/locale)? > Mine locale looks like this: > > --------------------------- > # locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > --------------------------- Locale is "C" on all my systems, I stopped using locales because of legacy problems with other apps in history. I think the Perforce clients were affected. > > Are you using gutenprint? I don't know if it has to do with gutenprint > update has to do with it. I only have updated gutenprint-base and > gutenprint-cups in case if you want to give it a shot. I do not think > it will changing your result since print works in your Firefox 2, but > never know. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/gutenprint-base.diff > http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/gutenprint-case.diff Those diffs are big... ;-) don't have anything like that around. I use Gutenprint with Cups, print server has: tack:~ % pkg_info | grep cups cups-base-1.3.9_2 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver tack:~ % pkg_info | grep guten gutenprint-5.1.7_1 The "meta-port" for GutenPrint gutenprint-base-5.1.7_1 GutenPrint Printer Driver gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver gutenprint-foomatic-5.1.7_1 GutenPrint Printer Driver gutenprint-ijs-5.1.7_1 GutenPrint Printer Driver tack:~ % uname -a FreeBSD tack.lon.incunabulum.net 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Dec 4 08:47:31 GMT 2008 root@tack.lon.incunabulum.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TACK i386 tack:~ % > > BTW: Forgot to say, I am using MarcusCom CVS that has newer GTK+, > GNOME, cairo and stuff. Probably some of these ports have fixed > Firefox 3's print problem? I don't have any 'normal' system that isn't > using MarcusCom CVS by use only vanilla FreeBSD ports tree. Vanilla ports here, I use portsnap for updates.
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