Thanks for the immediate response Drew!
I'll post another message as soon as I have any progress...
From: Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Xprint] Problem printing Greek characters
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:15:08 +1100
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 ("ÎανονιÏÎ¼Ï ÎιαÏείÏιÏÎ·Ï ÎºÎ±Î¹
ÎκÏÏÏηÏη...") 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
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