KDE 3.1.4, using cups, printer is an HP LaserJet 4 Plus (connected via JetDirect) with the postscript SIMM installed. Setup under CUPS as a "RAW Printer". (no driver), Also attempted setting Cups with the CUPS+Gimp-Print HP LaserJet 4 Series driver with same results... The web page in question ironically is the Gentoo 1.4 x86 installation guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml The page will print, but the fonts on the printed page are oversized, over-running each other, barely readable and not anything close to what is displayed on screen. The fonts of the printed output from konqueror look a bit like bitstream terminal but not exactly. Utilizing MozillaFirebird (0.6.1) on the same page prints out exactly like it is on screen. (essentially perfect and readable) Printing of text files via mpage works perfectly with correct output. NOTE: This machine had been updated previously from gentoo 1.2 to 1.4 via an in place total recompile about 6 weeks ago, which appeared to work very well, even though it was crashed during the big northeast blackout in the middle of the rebuild... The system has been rock solid aside from the printing issues under konqueror..
Exact same problem here, including printing with kmail. I've tried different drivers, adjusting the printing font, etc without any luck. Didn't have this problem with KDE 3.1.3. Could it be an issue with the KDE printing subsystem? Everything else prints fine...
This probably is a qt psprinter issue.
Any solutions for this bug? Printing a "printable view" in mapquest.com driving directions resutlts in the unreadable screwy fonts output, put printing of maps.yahoo.com printable driving directions printed normal output. Printing either page(same exact one) from MozillaFirebird resulted in perfect output..
Yes. I know this bug well. My website: http://www.andrewonline.ca expresses this bug nicely, even though I only use one size od sans-serif font. I think it's due to the face that the fonts avalible in gentoo suck, and also the fact that for some reason it uses the same charactar spacing no matter what size the font actually is. I can send you a postscript or a pdf of it if you want, or I can post it on my site. Just ask. I think we might be wise to report this to KDE because K is notorious for bad font alignment, especially for print. K word has never work in Gentoo for me either, (or mandrake for that matter) because every time I open a document, all the charactars are aligned in vertical columns, fixed font of not. I just MS Word & CX-O because fonts are almost never misaligned in it.
The print preview of your webpage looks perfect to me. It looks exactly as displayed, and that looks correct. What you might notice is that the update text elements are rendered lower below the text than in mozilla. There is no standard distance that a <sub> subscript needs to be lower than the main script. If you want to specify the distance you can do that with css. Btw. the page would be a lot more maintainable if you use a <style> in the document head instead of working with style attributes and javascript. Please do attach a pdf or ps file though, that way we can see whether we recognise the problems. Also could you tell which language options you use? What is the value of LC_CTYPE, LC_ALL, LC_LANG etc. (if they are specified). Also make sure that you have the newest freetype and fontconfig, and that there are correct fonts.dir and fonts.scale files and that all font files are readable.
Created attachment 20479 [details] This is what my webpage prints like. So now you can see
anyone have comments on this with kde 3.2?
Closing as a wontfix - if this is still a problem in later kdes please file a bug report at bugs.kde.org
I still get this bad printing of fonts from the gentoo install docs with Konqueror in KDE-3.2.2. I have also tried changing all of the font settings in the Konqy configuration dialogs but have not yet found a solution.
Well, the fix for me was simply to delete my kde config files. It's been working for me since January.
