ports/128694: www/firefox3 - Firefox 3 corrupts PostScript
printer fonts
Bruce M Simpson
bms at incunabulum.net
Sat Dec 6 00:50:03 PST 2008
The following reply was made to PR ports/128694; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc: mezz at FreeBSD.org, gnome at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/128694: www/firefox3 - Firefox 3 corrupts PostScript printer
fonts
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:47:27 +0000
Finally, I got a chance to look at this in more detail.
I updated to the latest firefox-3.0.2,1 binary package for FreeBSD
7.1-RELEASE, and tried the suggested "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" workaround.
The garbled printed glyph bug still exists.
The symptoms are similar to these postings and bug reports, although
these are for Windows:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454532#c3
http://fixunix.com/mozilla/539574-firefox-3-0-3-vs-seamonkey-1-1-9-a.html
I tried printing to a non-Postscript printer (Epson CX3650).
The problem is still present there, which suggests the root cause may be
in the Firefox 3 print renderer. I don't see this issue with Firefox 2.
Both appear to use the same versions of the installed Pango libraries.
I am using a CUPS networked print server to connect my printers.
The page I've been using to demonstrate this is
http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/ although the problem exists with
all sites regardless of text encoding. The page looks just fine in
"Print Preview", but, print it, and the glyphs are unreadable.
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