Firefox printing
With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. have included test-bad.ps to illustrate the difference, n the archive test-ps.tgz. I also converted test-bad.ps to jpg for quick view. Test-good.ps is about 150k larger, and too big to include on this list. I have included the jpg version test-good.jpg. (The example is just a printout of blank CUPS jobs, in which CUPS has nothing to do with problem) I took a look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490475 which may or may not be related to this problem, but I still don't understand why the same firefox build delivers different results (unless ubuntu added patches?). Thanks for any leads, Steven ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Firefox printing
(Followups redirected.) ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net writes: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. I send the following to gecko@ a day or two ago: I have a LaserJet 6mp, connected to: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 23 08:15:53 EDT 2010 amd64 running: cups-base-1.4.6_2 cups-client-1.4.6 cups-image-1.4.6 cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_6 Using this, I am able to print correctly from: the command line LibreOffice Acrobat Reader Opera I am not able to print correctly from: Firefox 3.6.14 SeaMonkey 2.0.11 In both cases the output is squished both horozontally and vertically so that it takes up ~40% on the desired space. Checkng the mailing list archives back into November shows nothing that matches this. Does this match your symptoms? Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox printing
On Sunday 06 March 2011 11:13:55 you wrote: (Followups redirected.) ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net writes: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. I send the following to gecko@ a day or two ago: I have a LaserJet 6mp, connected to: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 23 08:15:53 EDT 2010 amd64 running: cups-base-1.4.6_2 cups-client-1.4.6 cups-image-1.4.6 cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_6 Using this, I am able to print correctly from: the command line LibreOffice Acrobat Reader Opera I am not able to print correctly from: Firefox 3.6.14 SeaMonkey 2.0.11 In both cases the output is squished both horozontally and vertically so that it takes up ~40% on the desired space. Checkng the mailing list archives back into November shows nothing that matches this. Does this match your symptoms? Respectfully, Robert Huff I installed seamonkey 2.0.11 and I observe the same squishy output. I can print from other applications without any problems either. Print to postscript or PDF and then view it with ghostscript or PDF viewer. Therefore this has nothing to do with CUPS or the actual printing to one's printer. It has to do with the generation of the postscript file, perhaps by cairo. I have included the good postscript output from the linux system's firefox as reference. Please see previous message for the bad postscript output. Steven ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox printing
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Robert Huff wrote: In both cases the output is squished both horozontally and vertically so that it takes up ~40% on the desired space. Checkng the mailing list archives back into November shows nothing that matches this. firefox-3.6.15,1 prints fine here, but that's with lpr/lpd. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox printing
ste...@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net wrote: With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13: When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too), the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good. When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear output. ... have included test-bad.ps to illustrate the difference, The mailing list strips attachments. Based only on the description, I suspect Firefox is using different fonts on the two systems. That's about as far as I can go with my limited knowledge of Firefox text rendering, but others may have suggestions re how to go about fixing this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Firefox printing
Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print. Can anyone else confirm this? (8.1-stable using lpd.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox printing
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:36:58 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print. Can anyone else confirm this? (8.1-stable using lpd.) Warren, I was fighting this problem over the weekend. I have a network printer. I did a debug on the core dump and there was a some kind of cups library involved. I have WITHOUT_CUPS=YES in make.conf. I checked the installed ports and saw that cups-client was installed. I removed it and was able to print. YMMV Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
[sterl...@camdensoftware.com: Re: Firefox printing]
Quoth Warren Block on Monday, 02 August 2010: Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print. Can anyone else=20 confirm this? (8.1-stable using lpd.) Works fine here, but I'm using cups (8.1-stable, firefox 3.6.8,1, amd64) FreeBSD libertas.local.camdensoftware.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #23: Sun Aug 1 10:41:36 PDT 2010 sterl...@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIBERTAS amd64 firefox-3.6.8,1 =3D up-to-date with port=20 -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgp5otb0hwdVI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox printing
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Robert wrote: On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:36:58 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print. Can anyone else confirm this? (8.1-stable using lpd.) Warren, I was fighting this problem over the weekend. I have a network printer. I did a debug on the core dump and there was a some kind of cups library involved. I have WITHOUT_CUPS=YES in make.conf. I checked the installed ports and saw that cups-client was installed. I removed it and was able to print. That works! It does leave a long list of ports that are convinced they need cups-client to work, but that's probably something that needs to be fixed by rebuilding them without CUPS anyway. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox printing
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:36:58PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print. Can anyone else confirm this? (8.1-stable using lpd.) I'm using firefox-3.6.8,1 linked with cups-client-1.4.4 on 8.1-RELEASE amd64 using CUPS, and I can preview without problems. Printing to file or printer also works normally. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpiHPxoSqtnB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox printing
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:32:23 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:36:58PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: Firefox 3.6.8,1 coredumps on print preview or print. Can anyone else confirm this? (8.1-stable using lpd.) I'm using firefox-3.6.8,1 linked with cups-client-1.4.4 on 8.1-RELEASE amd64 using CUPS, and I can preview without problems. Printing to file or printer also works normally. Roland The problem seems to manifest itself when not using CUPS (using lpd). Somewhere during one of the latest portmaster -r foo upgrades cups-client was installed. As Warren said, there are ports that need to be updated without cups. Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
