RE: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing
The printer I'm using is a HP Officejet 6313 - there is no exact match in the HPJIS driver's list of printer - so I've used the closest match - JohnStanley Writes: HP has a Open Source driver project: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html This is a simple install consisting of a binary installer. It also has a GUI interface to configure you printer/scanner. JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing
nate wrote:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Hi,
I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of
updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print
Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and
any lines on the form print OK but the actual content is distorted
beyond recognition - printing a series of special characters
(!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone
else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem.
Try printing to a file and use ps2pdf to convert it to PDF and
validate that the formatting is correct? I always print to a file
and convert to PDF myself just to have a "hard" electronic copy.
nate
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I have tried this - ps2pdf ends with a segmentation fault, I have also
tried the other suggestions from Les Bell to no avail.
The printer I'm using is a HP Officejet 6313 - there is no exact match
in the HPJIS driver's list of printer - so I've used the closest match -
Office Jet 6150. If anyone has a better suggestion I'd be happy to try it.
If this issue cannot be resolved, I will have to revert to FF2.
ChrisG
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:24:57 -0700 MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never been able to get a really good > result from ps2pdf. Tif2pdf works great (and it's the only way I can > print graphics from Linux because, for some reason, all I get from > GIMP or the file viewer is black), but with ps2pdf my beautiful, > two-column, superbly formatted FrameMaker ps files turn into junk. What are you using to view the files? Evince has problems with some graphics - they come out as black squares. Your best option is to use acroread to view pdf files. My experience with Scribus has shown me that a bad font or a bad graphic can cause unknown errors in a pdf file. On the other hand, I use ps2pdf all the time to create pdf files from Scribus output for imposition purposes and as long as the fonts and the graphics are up to snuff, everything works wonderfully well. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:36 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try printing to a file and use ps2pdf to convert it to PDF and > validate that the formatting is correct? I always print to a file > and convert to PDF myself just to have a "hard" electronic copy. > Please post if that works - I've never been able to get a really good result from ps2pdf. Tif2pdf works great (and it's the only way I can print graphics from Linux because, for some reason, all I get from GIMP or the file viewer is black), but with ps2pdf my beautiful, two-column, superbly formatted FrameMaker ps files turn into junk. (My FrameMaker disc has a bad spot on the PDF converter area, so I can't install the missing link to generate PDFs directly, although the .ps files look fine until I try to convert them.) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing
fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:05:37AM +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of
> updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print
> Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and
> any lines on the form print OK but the actual content is distorted
> beyond recognition - printing a series of special characters
> (!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone
> else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem.
I have a similr issue with a Centos 4 system at work, on which i've
installed FF3.
My solution is to send my printouts to a different printer where they
print perfectly!
I've got an old HP Laserjet 4 at my desk, and that browser on that OS
prints mostly junk characters on that printer. There's also a HP 4250
outside my door, and that browser/OS combination prints fine on that
printer.
<<
There seems to be a known issue with Firefox 3 on all platforms, when
printing to Postscript printers. I started a thread about it on the Mozilla
support forums, did some experimenting, thought I'd fixed it, found I
hadn't and in fact, have never resolved it. Things you might try:
* Turning off "Allow pages to choose their own fonts"
* Changing the default character encoding from "Western (ISO-8859-1)" to
something else (and possibly back again)
* Disabling the use of the printer's fonts in your driver
It's been a show-stopper for me, and I'm thinking about going back to FF2.
Best,
--- Les Bell
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]
Tel: +61 2 9451 1144
FreeWorldDialup: 800909
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of
> updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print
> Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and
> any lines on the form print OK but the actual content is distorted
> beyond recognition - printing a series of special characters
> (!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone
> else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem.
>
Try printing to a file and use ps2pdf to convert it to PDF and
validate that the formatting is correct? I always print to a file
and convert to PDF myself just to have a "hard" electronic copy.
nate
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Re: [CentOS] Firefox distorted printing
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:05:37AM +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of
> updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print
> Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and
> any lines on the form print OK but the actual content is distorted
> beyond recognition - printing a series of special characters
> (!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone
> else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem.
>
> Other preformatted documents like supplier invoices are also not printed
> as well formatted as before (html documents) but appear all squashed up
> instead of filling the page vertically.
I have a similr issue with a Centos 4 system at work, on which i've
installed FF3.
My solution is to send my printouts to a different printer where they
print perfectly!
I've got an old HP Laserjet 4 at my desk, and that browser on that OS
prints mostly junk characters on that printer. There's also a HP 4250
outside my door, and that browser/OS combination prints fine on that
printer.
I've not pursued it beyond noting that I can print on the other printer,
but given that I had to find packages providing a whole bunch of updated
libraries in order to even get FF3 to work at all, I'd imagine there's
some weird interactions going on there.
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The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
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