Bill,
it seems it is a bug of cairo, when printing bitmap fonts.
We're looking into it.
To workaround, you can add a file in your home directory.
$cat ~/.fonts.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- ~/.fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>
<!-- Reject bitmap fonts in favour of Truetype, Postscript, etc. -->
<selectfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
<patelt
name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
</pattern>
</rejectfont>
</selectfont>
</fontconfig>
Thanks,
Ginn
On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Bill Shannon wrote:
> Ginn Chen wrote:
>> Firefox 3 uses jemalloc library instead of libc memory allocator.
>> jemalloc would crash the application if there's a double free.
>>
>> Try to set LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc.so, it may works.
>
> Ok, that caused it to bring up the print dialog and actually print.
>
> Now the only problem is that the printout is completely wrong!
> It's using the wrong fonts with the wrong size and the wrong spacing!
> Not just a little bit wrong, but *completely* wrong. The header and
> footer titles are actually correct, but the font in the page is either
> squished together so close that the character overlap each other, or
> it's half the size it should be and spaced twice as far apart as it
> should be so that it takes up the same amount of horizontal space.
>
> I'll send you a sample pdf file separately so you can see what I mean.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
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Ginn Chen
Software Engineer, Browser Team
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869
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