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 (!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem.
Other preformatted documents like supplier invoices are also not printed as well formatted as before (html documents) but appear all squashed up instead of filling the page vertically.
TIA
ChrisG
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:05:37AM +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Hi, I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and any lines on the form print OK but the actual content is distorted beyond recognition - printing a series of special characters (!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem.
Other preformatted documents like supplier invoices are also not printed as well formatted as before (html documents) but appear all squashed up instead of filling the page vertically.
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.
I've not pursued it beyond noting that I can print on the other printer, but given that I had to find packages providing a whole bunch of updated libraries in order to even get FF3 to work at all, I'd imagine there's some weird interactions going on there.
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.
Try printing to a file and use ps2pdf to convert it to PDF and validate that the formatting is correct? I always print to a file and convert to PDF myself just to have a "hard" electronic copy.
nate
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:36 PM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
Try printing to a file and use ps2pdf to convert it to PDF and validate that the formatting is correct? I always print to a file and convert to PDF myself just to have a "hard" electronic copy.
Please post if that works - I've never been able to get a really good result from ps2pdf. Tif2pdf works great (and it's the only way I can print graphics from Linux because, for some reason, all I get from GIMP or the file viewer is black), but with ps2pdf my beautiful, two-column, superbly formatted FrameMaker ps files turn into junk. (My FrameMaker disc has a bad spot on the PDF converter area, so I can't install the missing link to generate PDFs directly, although the .ps files look fine until I try to convert them.)
mhr
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:24:57 -0700 MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
I've never been able to get a really good result from ps2pdf. Tif2pdf works great (and it's the only way I can print graphics from Linux because, for some reason, all I get from GIMP or the file viewer is black), but with ps2pdf my beautiful, two-column, superbly formatted FrameMaker ps files turn into junk.
What are you using to view the files? Evince has problems with some graphics - they come out as black squares. Your best option is to use acroread to view pdf files.
My experience with Scribus has shown me that a bad font or a bad graphic can cause unknown errors in a pdf file. On the other hand, I use ps2pdf all the time to create pdf files from Scribus output for imposition purposes and as long as the fonts and the graphics are up to snuff, everything works wonderfully well.
nate wrote:
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.
Try printing to a file and use ps2pdf to convert it to PDF and validate that the formatting is correct? I always print to a file and convert to PDF myself just to have a "hard" electronic copy.
nate
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I have tried this - ps2pdf ends with a segmentation fault, I have also tried the other suggestions from Les Bell to no avail.
The printer I'm using is a HP Officejet 6313 - there is no exact match in the HPJIS driver's list of printer - so I've used the closest match - Office Jet 6150. If anyone has a better suggestion I'd be happy to try it.
If this issue cannot be resolved, I will have to revert to FF2.
ChrisG
The printer I'm using is a HP Officejet 6313 - there is no exact match in the HPJIS driver's list of printer - so I've used the closest match -
JohnStanley Writes:
HP has a Open Source driver project: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html This is a simple install consisting of a binary installer. It also has a GUI interface to configure you printer/scanner.
JohnStanley
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