I recently upgraded two woody boxes to sarge, and got the printing
problem on one but not the other. The box with the printing problem
has the msttcorefonts installed; the one without them seems to be OK.
(This appears to confirm the brief mention of this connection in earlier
reports.)
There are some strange features of the problem here. The Debian home
page prints all the Latin text in a sans-serif font similar to Helvetica.
The body type is spaced correctly; but the headings (AboutDebian, etc.),
as well as the sidebar and the "Select a server near you" at the upper
right, are printed without spaces.
The footer ("This page is also available in the following languages")
has further peculiarities. All the non-Latin scripts print correctly;
but the ones using Cyrillic fonts (Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukainian)
are spaced-out, with each character taking up 2 character cells in
the printout, just as they used to appear on screen in woody. On the
other hand, the Latin-font names of the Oriental languages ("Hangul" and
"Nihongo") are spaced correctly in the printout, but appear spaced-out
on-screen!
As has been reported elsewhere, the PostScript generated seems to be
faulty; but I wonder if that's the fault of Xprint or mozilla, or if it
is a bug in the font system. With sarge, we now have fontconfig, which
was missing in woody; and fontconfig plays a part in matching up fonts,
doesn't it?
I'll try removing the MS core fonts from this box and see if that helps.
-- A. T. Young
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