On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 07:36:18PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > David Purton wrote: > > > Running unstable mozilla-thunderbird, recently printing has > > started to use the wrong font for plain text emails. > > > > The print preview on screen looks ok, but then when it prints > > using Xprint a proportional font is used. In general the font > > spacing is a bit messed up and the font used is too small. > > > > Is there anyway to configure what font is used for printing of > > emails from thunderbird? [..] > > So this is a recent problem.. hadn't realised that. I had the same > problem (print preview in monospace, but actual print in > proportional). > > In Mozilla & derivatives xprint's behaviour can be configured by > means of a userContent.css file. This can also be used to obtain > monospaced prints of mail messages. > > For details, see: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu#xprint >
Thanks, this describes the problem exactly. I figured out that it was looking at the font preferences that broke things (by trial and error - since I noticed that the default settings printed ok) The solution on this page seems to be more robust, thanks. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a
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