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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:20:12PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: |
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> On 19 February 2016 at 23:13, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > I have been having a problem printing in Firefox for quite some time. It |
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> > seems fonts are being rendered in an unreadable way, but it doesn't |
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> > always do this. |
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> > |
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> > I've also noticed that Firefox is the only application that does this: |
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> > LibreOffice, various PDF readers, etc are all printing fine. |
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> > |
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> > I was able to print the invoice I needed by selecting, copying & pasting |
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> > into LibreOffice (which even retained the formatting.) |
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> > |
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> > Firefox even does this while printing to PDF, so I've attached a small |
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> > sample of search results from bugs.g.o. (TestPrint-BadQuality.pdf) |
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> > |
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> > Has anyone seen this and know how to fix it? I've been wading through |
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> > search results for almost an hour and found nothing. |
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> > |
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> > Dan |
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> |
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> I can confirm this happens to me as well, something related to fixed |
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> width font I guess. But as I can never actually make firefox print |
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> what I actually see, I usually give up and just copy content manually. |
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> |
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I had the same problem. In my use-case, changing my print driver from |
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PCL/CUPS to Gutenprint solved the issue. |
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I have the feeling this was specific to my set-up and printer, though it |
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might be worth looking at. |
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