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

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

Further to my last e-mail, I have the following information:

1. Only if the 'sans serif' (bundled with Mozilla?) is selected do I get 
proportional fonts when printing under Mozilla, even as root. 
Otherwise, if I select Verdana, for instance, I get only Courier fonts 
on printout.

2. I am not sure whether the preferences in user.js/unix.js for freetype 
and truetype in ~/.mozilla have any influence on the outcome.

3. Can I try Xprint out with another application other than Mozilla to 
see what output I get.

4. If it is an encodings problem,what should I do to further 
troubleshoot my setup?

Thanks.

--Chandra
  21 Aug 03

R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
> 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

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