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

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

Folks,

I have now got Xprint to print proportional fonts in Mozilla.  FYI, I 
did the following:

1. apt-get remove --purge mozilla*

2. got mozillalinux-gnu-1.4-sea.tar.gz

3. installed mozilla under /usr/local as root

4. ran /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla as root for the first time.

The upside is that I can now view (as before) and print using Xprint 
(unlike before) proportional fonts, including TrueType.

The downside is that the font-rendering (with anti-aliasing under 
KDE-3.1.3) is less pleasing to the eye than before when I had the 
support of the Debian mozilla-xft package.  Any help to resolve this 
would be most appreciated.

So, by solving one problem, I seem to have landed up with another :-(

I leave it to more knowledgeable folk to figure out the reasons for the 
originally reported problem with the Debian packages for mozilla* and 
xprint-xprintorg.

--Chandra
  23 Aug 03

R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
> 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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Dr R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
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Murdoch University
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