This weekend I hooked up a real printer and web pages with Greek print flawlessly using xprint. There certainly is a difference when using the pdf drivers or a real printer. One thing I did notice was that the printouts from xprint use a different font than mozilla uses on the screen. I use a sans-serif font on the screen and xprint uses a serif font when it prints. Other than that the printing is excellent.
Thanks for the help,
Sopho
On 12/15/05, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sophocles Metsis wrote:
> I certainly can although I can see why you think it's not working.
> It looks like mozilla would print if I didn't have xprint. The xprint
> pdf printer at :33 is what I print to. The pdf I put up was from
> /tmp/Xprintjobs. I also noticed that the pdfs produced with the
> missing greek are fairly smaller than the ones I tried with english.
Ah, yes, I should have looked at your pdf more closely. It has 3 pages,
and it does show some Greek (but only sporadically). xprint is working
on your system, obviously.
> Could there be a problem with the pdf/ps printers in xprint? Should
> attempt to get a real printer to print to or is printing to pdf/ps
> just as good as a printer for everyone?
xprint is unfortunately full of bugs. At the moment printing to "ps"
files is out of the question, see e.g.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4307
or
http://xprint.mozdev.org/pipermail/xprint/2005-September/000507.html
So now it seems that generating "pdf" files also does not work OK (at
least for some non-Latin html pages). I could reproduce your bug by
printing to a pdf from http://www.enet.gr/online/online . BTW in my case
the pdf's do not go to /tmp/Xprintjobs but to ~/Xprintjobs.
On the other hand printing on paper, using a real printer, still works
mostly OK. In my case, the header of the enet.gr page is printed on a
separate sheet of paper, but maybe this is somehow by design -- the
"print preview" does the same thing. But printing to file, whether ps or
pdf, does not work properly. I do not know why. Maybe xprint bends the
rules of PostScript in some way.
The author of xprint, alas, has not responded to anything on this list
since April. And it seems that nobody else understands xprint well
enough to fix its bugs.
Regards, Jan
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