Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:15:18 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox3 printing woes Message-ID: <hjqkum$2p8s$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <37358.1264459730@tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@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. 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
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