On 8 Nov 2002, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > > I will investigate this as my first priority on Monday after I synch up > > with your changes. > > Thanks. > > > Some possibilities: > > 1.Some dimensions in the formatter are not scaling correctly (can check by > > setting to high and low zoom). Try running at 400% > > I'm assuming that this is the case, actually. > > > 3. Bugs in the XFT=> PS translation > > No, this isn't the case. The fonts get embedded just fine. The current > problem affects placing anything on the screen. This includes lines, > colored bacgrounds behind table cells, etc... > > > Anyway, I will check. I suggest we delay the release of tarballs and > > binaries until we know the scope of the problem. If it easy to fix, delay > > until it's fixed. If it's hard, release right away and warn people. > > Yeah, no problem so long as someone is going to look at this. I spent my > hours fixing all sorts of bug in the printing and HTML layer this > afternoon. I don't think that XFT printing worked at all in 1.1.0 (or > ever, for that matter, having looked at the code), so this is likely > already quite an improvement over previous versions.
It would us if a windows developer or someone with a non-xft build could tell us the state of the printing on their platform. My investigations so far point to a bug somewhere in the fl*layout classes but I haven't found it yet. So windows/non-xft developers, what is printing from HEAD like on your platforms? Please try to print table as well as regular text. Thanks! Martin
