From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-169937-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2741388BF for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8887621C0AF; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34F8E21C0A6 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from archlinux ([24.116.197.15]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lxdfb-1Zuclm0u4Z-017H8U for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 23:04:49 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:04:31 -0600 From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Print quality unreadable in Firefox Message-ID: <20160219220410.GA5066@archlinux> References: <56C7856C.4010802@gmail.com> <CAOazyz3QNh54QZQ7wpaLJYyMExwkrGqPNWbqiaF1GCpCzVWO1A@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <CAOazyz3QNh54QZQ7wpaLJYyMExwkrGqPNWbqiaF1GCpCzVWO1A@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:px2FBHb7lRPTKT0vW8yl09OZPaFWLzaaHmmJU8lVZQ+XUn6pBvf b4dlTtfeo5Z+boykrWqPbk+zc60V51UxiAkHJYCtIvDBniVNd+87q5vYmgrF/IAuJ30CTcv y5rjuIYF2IJt5qo3C9N8/pKepzQKUKWXkDN0/xDTZ1iwmZG5QkvtzAjXK3tcMK1KAsksQdg qMVRk2L1ld6onjI2MtTlg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:YcVFhA0mDxE=:RHsP1kqAd6E2eyLbZi1iX2 rlnNTRY3GsrbuFA6RI0gp9zAQSj114rY4Houbi78LycfBRQy+3CV40mO0FjsOGSjw22fTABYl zieOoHjybwdWeofp/XwcqiuGluquH0ORYu++CT6Y+jdNAGlDqAmDdwJ1lFdBPx2tABLzH6wj4 SdsIYySeiKQdHiqLeCcikCMFiToguxeH0uAJvyzqYH3JSoGYXCyBONGKMmttrvWrrOh3DkuAP 3PRNCkG4vwfa6BX/7FzYJEicOlKCVcHiL2RgwXKZ/YZHTEZkzvdmhYtXhxcfVCNWmt4WgGu1Z X2oLUpnjVq9WfnWyfaWwgiLg9R4/7puo1TysksXrAS+vM5kIop8wX8RSNaCD2Aa1flZ8Klek9 E6PRwNl9deLNd31He3IqragwxRhHj5bRCdI+n6WispCbt4YEonAD7TfNxwWEnbh8KgqsrHdsW hbX9VVLIIcOP61PCm8u5bxqOiACMpMm5INdDb+Ja3AApwr+Z8pkT7JLlVatJBxhpqYiTWxH/4 M0nuO1b2mKZe+2uDy6smBYICwEssEli1DSsIa7kj9mgZPH/J/wX3HVBD3O8AXAacWkLbNZKEP BUymBxakgbNHI5JsTMZ19UnUM9wvfGVw0EXJTh5uaak7Es/GPULadpfIhsycMcdbuQyXEDPsj hEs19Mh9P/QT4tNxtfJMjhoOkRJILxt6CwyXuM2RcotTHhokGtedQAwwV23WzTCPx3SqxfBoK 5PXSK7t2vBsbfATDqDo4EgswtiIJ5qems3KSYKIUw6uNLrrCxj1zcLdFYtg= X-Archives-Salt: af55d4f3-8ea5-46ac-a25f-e2dee9d72f8c X-Archives-Hash: 01417e11197dbee2a3bed043c5775eb5 On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:20:12PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 19 February 2016 at 23:13, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have been having a problem printing in Firefox for quite some time. It > > seems fonts are being rendered in an unreadable way, but it doesn't > > always do this. > > > > I've also noticed that Firefox is the only application that does this: > > LibreOffice, various PDF readers, etc are all printing fine. > > > > I was able to print the invoice I needed by selecting, copying & pasting > > into LibreOffice (which even retained the formatting.) > > > > Firefox even does this while printing to PDF, so I've attached a small > > sample of search results from bugs.g.o. (TestPrint-BadQuality.pdf) > > > > Has anyone seen this and know how to fix it? I've been wading through > > search results for almost an hour and found nothing. > > > > Dan > > I can confirm this happens to me as well, something related to fixed > width font I guess. But as I can never actually make firefox print > what I actually see, I usually give up and just copy content manually. > I had the same problem. In my use-case, changing my print driver from PCL/CUPS to Gutenprint solved the issue. I have the feeling this was specific to my set-up and printer, though it might be worth looking at.