fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:05:37AM +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Hi, I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and any lines on the form print OK but the actual content is distorted beyond recognition - printing a series of special characters (!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem.
I have a similr issue with a Centos 4 system at work, on which i've installed FF3.
My solution is to send my printouts to a different printer where they print perfectly!
I've got an old HP Laserjet 4 at my desk, and that browser on that OS prints mostly junk characters on that printer. There's also a HP 4250 outside my door, and that browser/OS combination prints fine on that printer. <<
There seems to be a known issue with Firefox 3 on all platforms, when printing to Postscript printers. I started a thread about it on the Mozilla support forums, did some experimenting, thought I'd fixed it, found I hadn't and in fact, have never resolved it. Things you might try:
* Turning off "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" * Changing the default character encoding from "Western (ISO-8859-1)" to something else (and possibly back again) * Disabling the use of the printer's fonts in your driver
It's been a show-stopper for me, and I'm thinking about going back to FF2.
Best,
--- Les Bell [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909