[CentOS] Firefox distorted printing

nate centos at linuxpowered.net
Tue Sep 30 23:36:01 UTC 2008


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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