Re: Only Courier fonts are printed out with Xprint under Mozilla

["R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chandra@murdoch.edu.au>]

I have some interesting information on this outstanding problem.

I sincerely hope someone reading this will give me advice to solve it.

When I log in as root and run mozilla, I can print proportional fonts 
using Xprint.  Only when I run mozilla as (user) myself do I get the 
Courier only font problem mentioned in this thread.

I suspect that some environment variable or dotfile in my home directory 
is responsible for this difference in behaviour.

I note that the differences between root and myself may reside in one of 
the following dotfiles/dotfile directories in our respective home 
directories:

.defoma
.fonts.cache-1
.fonts.conf
.kde/share/config (some files here have [KPrinter Settings] that root 
does not have)
.mozilla/fonts/catalog (these were different, but moving files to make 
them identical did hot solve the problem)
.qt
.xftcache

This is an empirical approach because I do not have the theoretical 
knowledge of where to look for the problem and/or solution.

The one thing I am certain of is that the encodings.dir may not be the 
cause of the problem (see my previous e-mail) and also because 
proportional fonts are seen and printed for root.

There may also be useful info from "set" for root and myself.

I sincerely hope someone will reply this e-mail and help me track down 
this problem further.

Thank you.

--Chandra

Roland Mainz wrote:
> "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > A transaction listing of my Xprint setup is:
> > ***
> > <root@ganga># echo ${XPSERVERLIST}
> > :64
> > ***
> > ***
> > <root@ganga># env DISPLAY=:64 xset q | sed -n '/^Font Path:/{n;s/
> > //g;p;q;}' | tr ',' '\n'
> > Xlib:  extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":64.0".
> > PRINTER:/usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print//models/PSspooldir//fonts/
> > PRINTER:/usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print//models/PSdefault//fonts/
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> > ***
>
> [snip]
>
> > I can print from Mozilla using Xprint.  However, I cannot get even
> > standard PostScript fonts like Times Roman or Helvetica; only Courier,
> > even though I am supposed to get even TrueType support with the version
> > of xprt-xprintorg that I am using.
>
>
> The Truetype support in the xprint.mozdev.org Xprint server uses the
> FreeType TTF/OTF engine from Xfree86 so it needs the encodings.dir stuff
> set-up properly... - is that true in your case ?
>
>
> > The Mozilla print preview with xprt-xprintorg shows the proportional
> > sans serif fonts on web pages, but the hardcopy output from the printer
> > only shows fixed width Courier fonts. Even when I save to a .ps file and
> > view it with gv, I only see Courier fonts, unlike the print preview
> > which shows the proportional fonts.
> >
> > To illustrate what I am facing, I have included two .ps files:
>
> [snip]
>
> > (b) google_xprt.ps (obtained with ps@:64, my printer being called ps in
> > CUPS)
>
>
> Weired.
>
>
> > Note that the print preview shows the fonts as they appear in
> > google_kprinter.ps.
> >
> > Note that removing xfs, or xfs-xtt, or both, makes no difference.
>
>
> Questions:
> 1. Does % (DISPLAY=:64 xlsfonts) # list any fonts except the "Courier"
> and "fixed"/"cursor" fonts ?
> 2. Are the Xprint server config files (e.g.
> /usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print/) installed ?
> 3. Are the font _files_ in the font path readable for the Xprint server
> ?
> 4. Are there any error messages or warnings from the Xprint server ?
> 5. Does the Xprint server find the encodings.dir font encodings table ?
>
> ----
>
> Bye,
> Roland

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Dr R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Australian Research Centre for Medical Engineering (ARCME)
Murdoch University
South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-(8)-9360-2783    Fax: +61-(8)-9360-6304
email: chandra@murdoch.edu.au
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