From jstumpel at planet.nl Sun Feb 12 17:30:40 2006 From: jstumpel at planet.nl (Jan Willem Stumpel) Date: Sun Feb 12 11:31:43 2006 Subject: [Xprint] Xprint observations In-Reply-To: <1135316630.26599.13.camel@pug.anu.edu.au> References: <43A7CFFB.5010400@my.home> <1135316630.26599.13.camel@pug.anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <43EF62B0.3020008@my.home> 1. The "huge fonts, .ps files unviewable in gv" problem can be worked-around. It is not directly xprint's fault, but a fault of the recent versions of ghostscript, or perhaps some interaction between xprint and ghostscript. The solution is to downgrade ghostscript; in my case the problem disappeared after I downgraded to the Debian package gs-esp_7.07.1-9_i386.deb. The newer versions *also* have problems printing Japanese through PostScript/default (see Debian bug #352069). It seems they cannot print Japanese anymore because gs's config system for finding fonts has changed, and the new system does not work. Maybe this somehow causes the "huge font" problem also. 2. An interesting experiment is to print from Firefox or Mozilla after allowing, and then not allowing, "documents to use other fonts" in the preferences/appearance/font menu (preferences/content/fonts and colors/advanced) in Firefox). For web pages which do not specify their own fonts (no FONT tags in the HTML), nothing changes on the screen. But in the print-out, if you do not allow documents to use their own fonts, everything comes out as a Courier-like typewriter font. Is this a bug? Anyway, people who only see typewriter font in their print-outs should check that "using other fonts" is allowed. 3. If you use the "Freemono" font for printing e-mail messages (by specifying this in the userContent.css file) the horizontal spacing of the letters is far too large. It is a known bug of (several versions of) the ttf-freefont package that the *line* spacing is wrong. With xprint (and AFAIK only with xprint) the *letter* spacing is wrong also. The solution is to downgrade to an earlier version of ttf-freefont; the Debian package ttf-freefont_20051102-2_all.deb works OK. See Debian bug #254113. Regards, Jan From Martin.Deppe at web.de Fri Feb 24 11:07:51 2006 From: Martin.Deppe at web.de (Martin Deppe) Date: Fri Feb 24 05:09:14 2006 Subject: [Xprint] How do I change the size of a font? Message-ID: <43FEDAF7.4090406@web.de> Hi, could anybody give me a hint how to set a font in size so that I can read my printout whithout using microscope? I couldn't find that out yet and I have been looking around for a while now! I have installed Xprt and successfully created my own X-applications which display fine on the screen, but when I print it - and all graphics are ok as I want them - the text is half a millimeter in height and this is nearly not readable. Thank you in advance Martin From dparsons at debian.org Fri Feb 24 21:23:27 2006 From: dparsons at debian.org (Drew Parsons) Date: Fri Feb 24 05:24:53 2006 Subject: [Xprint] How do I change the size of a font? In-Reply-To: <43FEDAF7.4090406@web.de> References: <43FEDAF7.4090406@web.de> Message-ID: <1140776607.5240.70.camel@pug.anu.edu.au> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 11:07 +0100, Martin Deppe wrote: > Hi, > > could anybody give me a hint how to set a font in size so that I can > read my printout whithout using microscope? I couldn't find that out yet > and I have been looking around for a while now! > > I have installed Xprt and successfully created my own X-applications > which display fine on the screen, but when I print it - and all graphics > are ok as I want them - the text is half a millimeter in height and this > is nearly not readable. I'm not sure how to fix that myself, sorry. But I do remember it occuring sometimes on certain webpages, printing from mozilla. I believe things improved with a later version of Xprint. Which version are you using at the moment? One workaround might be to play around with your fonts. Xprt gets the order of its font directories (see "ps aux | grep [X]prt") rearranged somewhat differently to the X server (see "xset -q"). Possibly a different font on paper is being substituted to the one on screen. You can run the Xprt command line by hand if you have to, in order to experiment with a different order. Drew From Martin.Deppe at web.de Fri Feb 24 12:02:37 2006 From: Martin.Deppe at web.de (Martin Deppe) Date: Fri Feb 24 06:04:34 2006 Subject: [Xprint] How do I change the size of a font? In-Reply-To: <1140776607.5240.70.camel@pug.anu.edu.au> References: <43FEDAF7.4090406@web.de> <1140776607.5240.70.camel@pug.anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <43FEE7CD.7010802@web.de> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/xprint/attachments/20060224/6d1facff/attachment.htm From Martin.Deppe at web.de Fri Feb 24 14:42:51 2006 From: Martin.Deppe at web.de (Martin Deppe) Date: Fri Feb 24 08:43:52 2006 Subject: [Xprint] How do I change the size of a font? In-Reply-To: <43FEE7CD.7010802@web.de> References: <43FEDAF7.4090406@web.de> <1140776607.5240.70.camel@pug.anu.edu.au> <43FEE7CD.7010802@web.de> Message-ID: <43FF0D5B.1010909@web.de> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/xprint/attachments/20060224/98c60017/attachment.htm From Martin.Deppe at web.de Sun Feb 26 12:00:50 2006 From: Martin.Deppe at web.de (Martin Deppe) Date: Sun Feb 26 06:01:51 2006 Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Xprint] How do I change the size of a font?] Message-ID: <44018A62.9010601@web.de> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/xprint/attachments/20060226/d5b44841/attachment.htm From gernot at mb3.seikyou.ne.jp Sun Feb 26 20:09:50 2006 From: gernot at mb3.seikyou.ne.jp (Gernot Hassenpflug) Date: Sun Feb 26 06:10:55 2006 Subject: =?iso-2022-jp?B?UmU6IFtGd2Q6IFJlOiBbWHByaW50XSBIb3cgZG8gSSBjaGFuZ2UgdGhlIHNpemUgb2YgYSBmb250P10=?= In-Reply-To: <44018A62.9010601@web.de> References: <44018A62.9010601@web.de> Message-ID: <200602261109.k1QB9oQr026476@sings2.sings.jp> Hi Martin, Sorry, I cannot help you either. Could you post in text please, not HTML. If you post HTML in a mailing list, many members may either ignore you, or not see your posting at all due to spam filters which throw away HTML. Regards, Gernot -- Gernot Hassenpflug Find out how something works, to know its functionality and limits