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
Roland Mainz wrote:
"R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" wrote:
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A transaction listing of my Xprint setup is: *** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]># echo ${XPSERVERLIST} :64 *** *** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]># env DISPLAY=:64 xset q | sed -n '/^Font Path:/{n;s/ //g;p;q;}' | tr ',' '\n' Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":64.0". PRINTER:/usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print//models/PSspooldir//fonts/ PRINTER:/usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print//models/PSdefault//fonts/ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc ***
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I can print from Mozilla using Xprint. However, I cannot get even standard PostScript fonts like Times Roman or Helvetica; only Courier, even though I am supposed to get even TrueType support with the version of xprt-xprintorg that I am using.
The Truetype support in the xprint.mozdev.org Xprint server uses the FreeType TTF/OTF engine from Xfree86 so it needs the encodings.dir stuff set-up properly... - is that true in your case ?
The Mozilla print preview with xprt-xprintorg shows the proportional sans serif fonts on web pages, but the hardcopy output from the printer only shows fixed width Courier fonts. Even when I save to a .ps file and view it with gv, I only see Courier fonts, unlike the print preview which shows the proportional fonts.
To illustrate what I am facing, I have included two .ps files:
[snip]
(b) google_xprt.ps (obtained with ps@:64, my printer being called ps in CUPS)
Weired.
Note that the print preview shows the fonts as they appear in google_kprinter.ps.
Note that removing xfs, or xfs-xtt, or both, makes no difference.
Questions: 1. Does % (DISPLAY=:64 xlsfonts) # list any fonts except the "Courier" and "fixed"/"cursor" fonts ? 2. Are the Xprint server config files (e.g. /usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print/) installed ? 3. Are the font _files_ in the font path readable for the Xprint server ? 4. Are there any error messages or warnings from the Xprint server ? 5. Does the Xprint server find the encodings.dir font encodings table ?
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Bye, Roland
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