ports/128694: www/firefox3 - Firefox 3 corrupts PostScript printer fonts

[Jeremy Messenger]

The following reply was made to PR ports/128694; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
To: "Bruce M Simpson" <bms at incunabulum.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/128694: www/firefox3 - Firefox 3 corrupts PostScript
 printer fonts
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:00:41 -0600

 On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:47:27 -0600, Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net>  
 wrote:
 
 > 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.
 
 Bummer for it doesn't help.
 
 > 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
 
 Thanks for find it! It sounds like it's not a FreeBSD speific bug. It will  
 be good if one of us reply a comment in Mozilla bugzilla (#54532)? I can  
 do it for you if you are still busy.
 
 Cheers,
 Mezz
 
 > 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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