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

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:18:18 -0600, Bruce Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net>  
wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> My sister is home now for x-mas and her Epson Stylus NX400 printer came  
>> with her. So... I have setup share printer in her Vista. I had to  
>> update gutenprint to 5.2.3 to get Epson Stylus NX400 driver. It seems  
>> work in print test so far. I am going to install Firefox 3.0.5, and  
>> will trying to reproduce your problem and try to see if I can get it  
>> fixes. I do not know if update of gutenprint will causing the different  
>> result, but I hope not.
>
> Thank you very much for taking time to look at this, I really appreciate  
> it.

No problem. I have went to http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/ and I  
can't reproduce it. It prints fine, but it does not print image in middle  
that has lizard or some kind of repitle. Maybe it's normal as it's  
different from Opera. But both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 show the same  
result. Are your Firefox 3 in non-english (custom LANG/locale)? Mine  
locale looks like this:

---------------------------
# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
---------------------------

Are you using gutenprint? I don't know if it has to do with gutenprint  
update has to do with it. I only have updated gutenprint-base and  
gutenprint-cups in case if you want to give it a shot. I do not think it  
will changing your result since print works in your Firefox 2, but never  
know.

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/gutenprint-base.diff
http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/gutenprint-case.diff

BTW: Forgot to say, I am using MarcusCom CVS that has newer GTK+, GNOME,  
cairo and stuff. Probably some of these ports have fixed Firefox 3's print  
problem? I don't have any 'normal' system that isn't using MarcusCom CVS  
by use only vanilla FreeBSD ports tree.

Cheers,
Mezz

> cheers
> BMS


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