[Xprint] A trick to make xprint work much better in Mozilla on Debian

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

> Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
>> Thanks for posting this very useful information.  Its applicability
>> is not confined to Debian.  I had previously noticed (on a 
>> Slackware-derived system) that xprint worked OK if a web page fully 
>> specified its fonts, but produced rubbish otherwise.  Your userContent.css 
>> suggestion works perfectly for me.
>
> It is not *quite* perfect yet.. see
> http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#xprint.
>
> Thanks for confirming the bug. So it occurs in Slackware too. I thought
> it might have been Debian-specific. Do you use UTF-8, or 'exotic' fonts?

Thanks for the reference.  My LANG setting is en_US.ISO8859-1 and I 
use pretty standard TrueType fonts.  In my case the problem that your
method has overcome is that text in an unspecified font came out 
absolutely tiny (invisible in ghostview, barely visible in a 1200dpi 
printout).

Allin Cottrell