Re: Firefox 1.5 printing problems on Solaris

[email protected] (Richard L. Hamilton) writes:

>>>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.
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion.  The GISWxprintglue package is installed.

>So are you saying that helped, or you'd already done that and it didn't?
>Others of us who use a similar setup, and aren't _always_ happy with
>how things work, want to know...

The GISWxprintglue package has always been installed.  Printing works fine
from Mozilla 1.8a4 but does not print properly from Firefox 1.5.

The print previews on both programs are very close to the same except that
they format (wrap) the text a little bit differently (even though page
setup is identical) and I see that they both slightly truncate long text
lines at the right margin.

Mozilla prints something that looks very close to the print preview, except
that it wraps the long line text differently on the printer so that words
are not truncated as they are in the print preview!  Strange.

On the other hand, Firefox substitute many fonts on the printed output from
what I see on the print preview and I'm pretty sure that this is what
is responsible for the screwed up printing.  Here is a web page for a
bridge column that I was using as a test in both browsers:

	http://www.baronbarclay.com/sheinwold/010906.html

I took a look at the HTML source for this page and it does not contain any
explicit FONT assignments.  The interesting thing is that the <H2> header
line "Dog Didn't Bark" prints on my HP LaserJet 4M PostScript printer properly
(i.e., as displayed in print preview) but all of the other titles and body
text fonts do not match the print preview.

I checked the font assignments on both Mozilla and Firefox and made sure that
they are identical.  Again, here are the Firefox assignments:

	Default Font:	adobe-helvetica-is08859-1	12pt

	Proportional:	Serif				12pt
	Serif:		adobe-helvetica-is08859-1
	Sans-serif:	adobe-helvetica-is08859-1
	Monospace:	adobe-courier-is08859-1		12pt

	Display res:	System settings
	Min font size:	9pt

	Allow pages to choose their own fonts		yes

	Dflt Encoding:	Western (ISO-8859-1)

Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,
-- 
Jeff