Re: Firefox 1.5 printing problems on Solaris

Jeffery Small wrote:
> I am using Firefox 1.5 on a Solaris 9 system.  I am having problems
> printing using the xprint system to my HP LaserJet 4M PostScript printer.
> In general the printing works.  I can perform a print preview and
> everything looks fine, but when I send output to the printer, the text
> often runs off the right side of the page and is lost.  I'm pretty sure
> the problem has to do with font mapping, as the output appears differently
> from what I see in the print preview and I'm guessing that the font
> substitutions taking place throw off the rendering engine which expects
> the printed output to match the print preview.
>
> I have checked the printer setup and everything appears to be fine.  The
> paper is set to na-letter and sizes are 215x279 mm (8.5x11 inches) with
> 0.5" margins all sides and print_edge set to 4mm all sides.  The default
> font is set to 12pt adobe-helvetica-iso8859-1 which is the same setting for
> Serif and Sans-serif.  The Monospace font is 12pt -courier-iso8859-1.
>
> I have the same version of Firefox running under Windows XP on my
> SunPCi-III card and, with the same settings it prints properly.
>
> Any suggestion as to what is wrong and how to correct it?
>
> Also, any idea why the Page Setup menu shows my margins in inch increments
> on my Windows system but displays them in millimeters on the Solaris
> system?  Is this something that was compiled into the Firefox build or can
> this be changed?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Jeffery Small

Have you installed the
 2004-07-07-release_009_001 Solaris package GISWxprintglue
  (contains only config data and reuses Solaris's native Xprint server)

http://xprint.mozdev.org/releases/

on you SPARC server ?

This used to bee nesseary to get any joy  out of printig from Mozilla
on Sol9.

//Lars