[Xprint] Problem printing Greek characters

[Dimitris Hadjigeorgiou]

Thanks for the immediate response Drew!
I'll post another message as soon as I have any progress...

>From: Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org>
>Reply-To: dparsons at debian.org, xprint at mozdev.org
>To: xprint at mozdev.org
>Subject: Re: [Xprint] Problem printing Greek characters
>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:15:08 +1100
>
>On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:31 +0300, Dimitris Hadjigeorgiou wrote:
> > Hi, I'm quite new to xprint and I've recently run into a problem with
> > printing web pages with greek characters. In specific, I have Mozilla on 
>a
> > Solaris 8, and while trying to print web pages with text in Greek, the 
>text
> > was all messed up; almost whole words where missing (i.e. about 30% of 
>the
> > characters did not print). I then installed xprint
> > (2004-07-07-release_009_001 Solaris package GISWxprint) and the 
>situation
> > became quite improved, but still faulty; Now, when I print, the greek 
>letter
> > 'm' () never prints, and at each position this happens, the position of 
>the
> > following letters is shifted, messing up the text.
> > Is there someone who can help me with this?
> >
>
>Xprint is in something of a janitorial mode now, so we may not
>necessarily be able to help.
>
>I can confirm there are issues printing in Greek on my system (Debian
>unstable), but apparently not the same problem as yours.  In my case the
>letter mu (μ) is printed, but the font is bad.
>
>It seems to be related to font selection - Xprint does not appear to be
>grabbing the same fonts that the Xserver uses. It might be an
>interesting exercise to try running Xprt by hand using the exact same
>fontpath reported by xset q. Trying it myself, however, Xprt segfaults
>and brings down firefox with it.  The first fontpath entry that the
>Xserver uses is an XFS font server at unix/:7100, so removing that entry
>means Xprt does not crash, but does not serve up the nice proper fonts
>used on screen.
>
>So something is broken in the way Xprint accesses a fontserver ;(
>
>A workaround that might work for you is to ensure you have your greek
>fonts installed explicitly, i.e. not served up via a font server.
>Perhaps you might see some change in behaviour if you use the mozilla
>font configuration to choose the specific font you need for greek?
>
>Note even in my broken greek printing output from
>https://grweb.ics.forth.gr/greek/index.html, the highlighted text in
>bold ("Κανονισμό Διαχείρισης και 
>Εκχώρηση...") prints cleanly, albeit
>serif not sans-serif.  Again,this suggests problems in font selection,
>where the font selected for <strong> works better than the others.
>
>If you get Solaris to build Xprint from X.org 6.8 or 6.9, that may
>possibly help, though I suspect font handling will be much the same.
>
>Drew
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