Mark Roberts wrote: > On my Red Hat 7.2 system, Mozilla 0.9.9 is printing italic fonts as > Helvetica normal, rather than Times Roman italic. I have the > display set as Helvetica (sans-serif), but I am assuming printing fonts and > display fonts continue to be separated (in other words, what you > see isn't always what you get) in Mozilla as they have been. > > The printer is an HP LJ 2100M, a true PostScript printer. > > Print Preview shows the fonts as Helvetica, and shows the italic > fonts as slanted. It looks a bit ugly and doesn't fully reflect the > printed page but, again, I am assuming that's because of the > what-you-see-isn't-always-what-you-get nature of Mozilla in the *NIX world. > > I cannot seem to find *any* location where the fonts for printing > are determined. I hope they're still not hardcoded as they were in > Netscape 4! I have also not been able to find any posts or bug > reports that would be relevant. Linux font HOWTOs, etc., also > haven't been helpful. > > Am I missing something obvious? Is there somewhere else to look? > > Generally speaking, Moz 0.9.9 is a big improvement over the stock > 0.9.2.1 that came with the RH 7.2 OS, but this wrong-font > substitution is an annoyance, made even greater by the inability to > simply define what fonts should be used for printing. >
this I think will be fixed in 3-22 nightlies if its the same.. the bug that got checked in is: I think the fonts on linux are not selected properly .. so hopefully that will fix the printing issue. -dman84
