[Xprint] no numbers..

Jan Willem Stumpel jstumpel at planet.nl
Thu May 20 13:21:09 EDT 2004


Text in html pages which has not been explicitly formatted
to use a certain font, is always printed wrongly on my system
(Debian Sid,  xprt-common 0.0.9.final-2, xprt-xprintorg
0.0.9.final-2).

Only letters are printed, no digits or other non-letter ASCII
symbols (like periods, commas, etc.). Spaces are saved up and
then printed in bunches (on some pages spaces are printed
correctly; don't know why).

The effect is like this: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/debtest.png
(a partial screen print of a gv view of mozilla.ps generated
from the Debian home page, one of the pages which has this
problem). The headline is OK, the problem is in the default
text.

BTW I noticed that when xprint is started with the very
complicated /etc/init.d/xprint script supplied with Debian,
it uses a font path with lots of duplicates in it:

/usr/bin/Xprt -ac -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4
                -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
                    /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
                    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,
                    /usr/share/fonts/truetype,
                    /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
                    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
                    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
                    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,
                    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
                    /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
                    /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
                    /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
                    /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,
                    /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,
                    /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc :64

(as shown by ps aux; newlines inserted for clarity)

This is obviously not right. However, when started "by hand",
e.g. with Xprt :64 -audit 4, the same "letters only" print-
outs result.

I'm printing with lprng.

Regards, Jan




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