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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 08:53:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110507085332.GA4150@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DC50006.7090607@binarywings.net>

Hi, Florian.

On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 10:17:10AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 07.05.2011 09:28, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> > Hi, Gentoo.

> > Start the up to date version of Firefox, 3.6.17.  Print something
> > textual (e.g. a piece of Gentoo documentation) out.

> > When I do this I get an emulation of an 8-pin dot matrix printer from
> > the early 1980s.  Does anybody else fare better?


> Printing to PDF looks good here.

My PDF output looks like a dot matrix printer, too.

> Are other Mozilla or GTK+ applications also affected?

Epiphany (another web browser) prints just fine.  I get the impression
somebody tried this printing as a joke hack, and it accidentally found
its way into the release.  Or else I've done something really stupid
(which wouldn't be the first time).

> Regards,
> Florian Philipp

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-07  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-07  7:28 [gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-07  8:17 ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-07  8:53   ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]

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