Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:40:03 GMT From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/128694: www/firefox3 - Firefox 3 corrupts PostScript printer fonts Message-ID: <200812242040.mBOKe3Ei011199@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/128694; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Bruce Simpson" <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/128694: www/firefox3 - Firefox 3 corrupts PostScript printer fonts Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:30:20 -0600 On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:25:23 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:18:18 -0600, Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> > wrote: > >> Jeremy, >> >> Jeremy Messenger wrote: >>> My sister is home now for x-mas and her Epson Stylus NX400 printer >>> came with her. So... I have setup share printer in her Vista. I had to >>> update gutenprint to 5.2.3 to get Epson Stylus NX400 driver. It seems >>> work in print test so far. I am going to install Firefox 3.0.5, and >>> will trying to reproduce your problem and try to see if I can get it >>> fixes. I do not know if update of gutenprint will causing the >>> different result, but I hope not. >> >> Thank you very much for taking time to look at this, I really >> appreciate it. > > No problem. I have went to http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/ and I > can't reproduce it. It prints fine, but it does not print image in > middle that has lizard or some kind of repitle. Maybe it's normal as > it's different from Opera. But both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 show the > same result. Are your Firefox 3 in non-english (custom LANG/locale)? > Mine locale looks like this: > > --------------------------- > # locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > --------------------------- > > Are you using gutenprint? I don't know if it has to do with gutenprint > update has to do with it. I only have updated gutenprint-base and > gutenprint-cups in case if you want to give it a shot. I do not think it > will changing your result since print works in your Firefox 2, but never > know. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/gutenprint-base.diff > http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/gutenprint-case.diff The URL is valid with a typo, but inside diff has correct typo. I mean by guteprint-cups port. Cheers, Mezz > BTW: Forgot to say, I am using MarcusCom CVS that has newer GTK+, GNOME, > cairo and stuff. Probably some of these ports have fixed Firefox 3's > print problem? I don't have any 'normal' system that isn't using > MarcusCom CVS by use only vanilla FreeBSD ports tree. > > Cheers, > Mezz > >> cheers >> BMS -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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