[Xprint] xprint produces no output

[John Francis Lee]

Thanks Jan Willem Stumpel.

Thanks for the URL to your page. I will work my way through it.
It takes a minute or more to process the page on my machine.

Neither does it print from ggv.

I do not have the freeserif font. Where can I get it?

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:38 +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> John Francis Lee wrote:
> 
> > If I print to file I get... a 2.9 Mb file which looks ok,
> > except that the first page has just the navigational tabs from
> > the webpage and pages two and three hold the rest of the body.
> 
> This sounds familiar. Until a few months ago I also had this
> (navigation elements printed first, then the content on following
> pages). But see below.
> 
> Can you print the .ps file using gv?
> 
> > I attach the first hundred lines of the postscript output.
> 
> I also get this, but some font names are different.
> 
> >>> Now when I try to print a page from Firefox it takes an 
> >>> inordinately long time to process the page, [..]
> 
> What is "an inordinately long time"? I my case processing the URL
> you supplied takes about 4 seconds. The print come out OK (don't
> know Thai, but the print looks the same as the display).
> 
> I had many problems with xprint in the past. I found some
> solutions, which I put on my "UTF-8 on Linux" page
> (www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu). But since very recently (two weeks?
> one week?) these problems have disappeared, i.e., the remedies
> which I suggested on my page no longer seem necessary (although
> userContent.css is still nice for customising the print-out). I am
> using "Debian unstable" which is updated quite frequently. I have
> done some experiments but haven't found yet which update (Mozilla?
> xprint? something else?) was the crucial one.
> 
> If your system is not new enough, you could try the remedies
> mentioned on my page (creating a userContent.css file in the
> chrome directory, and removing some xprint fonts).
> 
> It seems that on my system, Thai is printed using the freeserif
> font (which supports many languages, including Thai). Do you have
> that installed?
> 
> Regards, Jan
> 
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