[Xprint] Fontproblems on Solaris using Xprint

[Matthias Ernst]

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Hello,

I have installed the GISWxprintglue package (0.9) on our SPARC/Solaris 9 machines
and we see a lot of font problems when printing from Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird.
The newest version of Solaris 9 with (almost) the newest patch sets are installed.
I can provide details on request.

The rendering of the fonts is wrong, i.e., the glyphs seem to be cut up and
put together in the wrong way. The Glyphs are at the correct position and the
spacing seems to be okay but each glyph itself is messed up. It is difficult to
describe, so I have made a postscript file which shows the problem available at

http://www.nmr.ethz.ch/~maer/mozilla.ps

It only happens when I use the xprint drivers but not when I use the postscript/
default driver in Mozilla/FireFox/Thunderbird.

Has anybody seen this and knows what the reason for it is? I checked Suns support
database for any Sun related problem and could not find any. I also did not
find anybody describing similar problems.

Any help or hints on how to debug the problem would be appreciated.

Regards,

Matthias Ernst


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| Matthias Ernst                         | Phone: +41-44-632-4366            |
| ETH Zürich                             | Fax:   +41-44-632-1621            |
| Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie  |                                   |
| ETH-Hönggerberg - HCI D 227            | Email: maer at nmr.phys.chem.ethz.ch |
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