Re: [Xprint] Re: Xprint observations
"R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" wrote:
[snip]
> > So there seems to be some incompatibility between AA display and
> > 'wysiwig' printing through xprint. This could be a fundamental
> > problem; if so, it would seriously limit the usefulness of xprint.
> > But I wonder if anyone has been able to set it up in such a way
> > as to have AA display and 'wysiwig' printing at the same time.
>
> I have an interesting footnote to add to your observations.
>
> If you install mozilla-browser_1.5-3 and include mozilla-xft_1.5-3 from
> unstable, and in Mozilla, under Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts,
> select the fonts serif, sans-serif and monospace, without foundry
> affiliation (probably from Xft?) you can see rather impressive
> anti-aliased fonts on-screen and also get good looking serif, sans-serif
> and monospace printout from Xprint under Mozilla.
>
> However, if you change to any other fonts such as, for instance,
> verdana, the Xprint output will default to courier.
This may be possible... I am not an Xft expert but AFAIK the font naming
conventions between Xft and XLFD differ a lot... I've CC:'ed
jshin@mailaps.org who wrote recently a patch for Mozilla's PostScript
module which solved similar issues...
jshin:
Would it be possible to write a similar patch (AFAIK the Xft/PS one was
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219060 ("Freetype printing
does not work for Xft build")) for the GTK+/Xlib gfx code in Mozilla
(e.g. that font prefs from Xft-based Mozilla will work for normal
XLFD-based Mozilla's, too) ?
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Roland.
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