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. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ------------------------ ---- Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. ----------------------------- Isaiah 40:28 (niv) ----------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080930/18a45d33/attachment-0001.sig>
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 > (!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone > else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem. >Try printing to a file and use ps2pdf to convert it to PDF and validate that the formatting is correct? I always print to a file and convert to PDF myself just to have a "hard" electronic copy. nate
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:>>On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:05:37AM +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:> Hi, > I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of > updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print > Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and > any lines on the form print OK but the actual content is distorted > beyond recognition - printing a series of special characters > (!"$%&#'(") 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