I have now got Xprint to print proportional fonts in Mozilla. FYI, I did the following:
1. apt-get remove --purge mozilla*
2. got mozillalinux-gnu-1.4-sea.tar.gz
3. installed mozilla under /usr/local as root
4. ran /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla as root for the first time.
The upside is that I can now view (as before) and print using Xprint (unlike before) proportional fonts, including TrueType.
The downside is that the font-rendering (with anti-aliasing under KDE-3.1.3) is less pleasing to the eye than before when I had the support of the Debian mozilla-xft package. Any help to resolve this would be most appreciated.
So, by solving one problem, I seem to have landed up with another :-(
I leave it to more knowledgeable folk to figure out the reasons for the originally reported problem with the Debian packages for mozilla* and xprint-xprintorg.
--Chandra 23 Aug 03
R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
Further to my last e-mail, I have the following information:
1. Only if the 'sans serif' (bundled with Mozilla?) is selected do I get proportional fonts when printing under Mozilla, even as root. Otherwise, if I select Verdana, for instance, I get only Courier fonts on printout.
2. I am not sure whether the preferences in user.js/unix.js for freetype and truetype in ~/.mozilla have any influence on the outcome.
3. Can I try Xprint out with another application other than Mozilla to see what output I get.
4. If it is an encodings problem,what should I do to further troubleshoot my setup?
Thanks.
--Chandra 21 Aug 03
R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
I have some interesting information on this outstanding problem.
I sincerely hope someone reading this will give me advice to solve it.
When I log in as root and run mozilla, I can print proportional fonts using Xprint. Only when I run mozilla as (user) myself do I get the Courier only font problem mentioned in this thread.
I suspect that some environment variable or dotfile in my home directory is responsible for this difference in behaviour.
I note that the differences between root and myself may reside in one of the following dotfiles/dotfile directories in our respective home directories:
.defoma
.fonts.cache-1
.fonts.conf
.kde/share/config (some files here have [KPrinter Settings] that root does not have)
.mozilla/fonts/catalog (these were different, but moving files to make them identical did hot solve the problem)
.qt
.xftcache
This is an empirical approach because I do not have the theoretical knowledge of where to look for the problem and/or solution.
The one thing I am certain of is that the encodings.dir may not be the cause of the problem (see my previous e-mail) and also because proportional fonts are seen and printed for root.
There may also be useful info from "set" for root and myself.
I sincerely hope someone will reply this e-mail and help me track down this problem further.
Thank you.
--Chandra
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