On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:31 +0300, Dimitris Hadjigeorgiou wrote: > Hi, I'm quite new to xprint and I've recently run into a problem with > printing web pages with greek characters. In specific, I have Mozilla on a > Solaris 8, and while trying to print web pages with text in Greek, the text > was all messed up; almost whole words where missing (i.e. about 30% of the > characters did not print). I then installed xprint > (2004-07-07-release_009_001 Solaris package GISWxprint) and the situation > became quite improved, but still faulty; Now, when I print, the greek letter > 'm' () never prints, and at each position this happens, the position of the > following letters is shifted, messing up the text. > Is there someone who can help me with this? >
Xprint is in something of a janitorial mode now, so we may not necessarily be able to help. I can confirm there are issues printing in Greek on my system (Debian unstable), but apparently not the same problem as yours. In my case the letter mu (μ) is printed, but the font is bad. It seems to be related to font selection - Xprint does not appear to be grabbing the same fonts that the Xserver uses. It might be an interesting exercise to try running Xprt by hand using the exact same fontpath reported by xset q. Trying it myself, however, Xprt segfaults and brings down firefox with it. The first fontpath entry that the Xserver uses is an XFS font server at unix/:7100, so removing that entry means Xprt does not crash, but does not serve up the nice proper fonts used on screen. So something is broken in the way Xprint accesses a fontserver ;( A workaround that might work for you is to ensure you have your greek fonts installed explicitly, i.e. not served up via a font server. Perhaps you might see some change in behaviour if you use the mozilla font configuration to choose the specific font you need for greek? Note even in my broken greek printing output from https://grweb.ics.forth.gr/greek/index.html, the highlighted text in bold ("Κανονισμό Διαχείρισης και Εκχώρηση...") prints cleanly, albeit serif not sans-serif. Again,this suggests problems in font selection, where the font selected for <strong> works better than the others. If you get Solaris to build Xprint from X.org 6.8 or 6.9, that may possibly help, though I suspect font handling will be much the same. Drew _______________________________________________ Xprint mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/xprint
