[gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox

[gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox

[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?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox

[Florian Philipp]

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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. Are other Mozilla or GTK+ applications
also affected?

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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Re: [gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox

[Alan Mackenzie]

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).