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

[Bruce Simpson]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> ...
> 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=
> ---------------------------

Locale is "C" on all my systems, I stopped using locales because of 
legacy problems with other apps in history.
I think the Perforce clients were affected.
>
> 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

Those diffs are big... ;-)  don't have anything like that around.

I use Gutenprint with Cups, print server has:
tack:~ % pkg_info | grep cups
cups-base-1.3.9_2   Common UNIX Printing System
cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to 
non-PS printers
gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver
tack:~ % pkg_info | grep guten
gutenprint-5.1.7_1  The "meta-port" for GutenPrint
gutenprint-base-5.1.7_1 GutenPrint Printer Driver
gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_3 GutenPrint Printer Driver
gutenprint-foomatic-5.1.7_1 GutenPrint Printer Driver
gutenprint-ijs-5.1.7_1 GutenPrint Printer Driver

tack:~ % uname -a
FreeBSD tack.lon.incunabulum.net 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE 
#0: Thu Dec  4 08:47:31 GMT 2008     
root at tack.lon.incunabulum.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TACK  i386
tack:~ %


>
> 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.

Vanilla ports here, I use portsnap for updates.