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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 08:55:41
Message-Id: 20110507085332.GA4150@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Low print quality in Firefox by Florian Philipp
1 Hi, Florian.
2
3 On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 10:17:10AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
4 > Am 07.05.2011 09:28, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
5 > > Hi, Gentoo.
6
7 > > Start the up to date version of Firefox, 3.6.17. Print something
8 > > textual (e.g. a piece of Gentoo documentation) out.
9
10 > > When I do this I get an emulation of an 8-pin dot matrix printer from
11 > > the early 1980s. Does anybody else fare better?
12
13
14 > Printing to PDF looks good here.
15
16 My PDF output looks like a dot matrix printer, too.
17
18 > Are other Mozilla or GTK+ applications also affected?
19
20 Epiphany (another web browser) prints just fine. I get the impression
21 somebody tried this printing as a joke hack, and it accidentally found
22 its way into the release. Or else I've done something really stupid
23 (which wouldn't be the first time).
24
25 > Regards,
26 > Florian Philipp
27
28 --
29 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).