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> Have you read the printing-problem README in /usr/share/doc/xprint?
Yes.
> There are a couple of ideas for workarounds there. Don't personalise
> the fonts in mozilla (remove font references from prefs.js), and restart
> mozilla before printing again (the first print seems to work fine, the
> second print has the spacing problems.
I tried commenting out the "font.name" block from prefs.js, but don't
like the ttf-bitstream-vera default font; I much prefer Times.
Interestingly enough, even commenting out all the font preferences
did *not* solve the spacing problems entirely. The names "Hangul"
and "Nihongo" (and, I now see, "HK" as well) are still spaced out to
double-width on the screen. However, the printed names of all the
various languages at the foot of the Debian home page are now all
spaced correctly.
Furthermore, there are still missing spaces before some underlined links
in the printed body text. For example, in the first paragraph, there's
space missing before the link "GNU project"; the others there seem OK.
In the "Getting Started" paragraph, the space before "available versions
of Debian" is missing, though "latest stable release of Debian" is OK.
Most of the following links are also missing their leading spaces.
But the links under "News" seem correctly formatted. All these links
appear correctly spaced on the screen; it's just the printed version
(which uses a Times-like font for the body text) that's wrong.
One last minor buglet: in every setup I've tried so far, the second
glyph in "Bulgarski" seems to be an accented "u" from an italic font
in the printed version, though it's an inverted "e" (like the phonetic
"schwa" character) on-screen.
My other Debian box printed OK (or nearly so) before installing
ttf-bitstream-vera, and it lacks the msttcorefonts, as well as
ttf-thryomanes. All this suggests that it's the fonts with non-ISO-8859-1
encodings that are somehow the cause of the problem. Maybe there's a bad
defoma hints-file? Do people using (say) Red Hat or other distributions
have this problem? (If not, that would suggest a glitch in the way
defoma works with fontconfig, rather than a problem in mozilla or xprint.)
-- Andy Young
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