Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

[Andy Firman <andy@firman.us>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:31:20PM -0500, David P James wrote:
> On March 22, 2004 03:03, Glenn Meehan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:42, Kent West wrote:
> > > Sounds like a driver problem. I've had issues when I've used the
> > > "correct" driver for my printer that the default cups installation
> > > offered, only to have the problems go away when I installed a
> > > different driver provided from a different package (foomatic-gimp?;
> > > sorry, don't remember).
> > >
> > > I've also had some success printing from Mozilla by using qtcups;
> > > "apt-get install qtcups", and then configure the printer in Moz to
> > > print to "qtcups" instead of to "lpr - blah blah blah".
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kent
> >
> > The foomatic-gimp driver produced no output and neither did qtcups.
> > I can print ok from Konqueror.
> 
> Actually it didn't sound like a driver problem to me but rather a 
> problem with Mozilla itself in the quality of postscript it is spitting 
> out (try printing to file and examining the resulting file with 
> [k]ghostview or the like. Are you using a Debianized Mozilla or one 
> straight from mozilla.org?

I have the same problem.  Even when I print to file and look at it
with kghostview, all the letters are little rectangles.

Using Mozilla Debian Package 1.6-2 on unstable.
Galeon 1.3.13 has the same problem.
I can print ok from Konqueror as well.