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

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:25:23 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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

The URL is valid with a typo, but inside diff has correct typo. I mean by  
guteprint-cups port.

Cheers,
Mezz

> 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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