On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:00:47 +0100 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > > > I am getting very poor results printing to pdf from Firefox, it seems > > > > > to have worked better in the past. Changing the settings for image > > > > > resolution does not help. > > > > > > > > Have you tried printing to Postscript and the converting it to pdf > > > > using ps2pdfwr? > > > > > > They look equally bad. I would attach a file to this email, but I think > > > lots of list subscribers would not appreciate that. > > > > Take a screenshot, save it as png, upload it to imagebin.org and post a > > link. > > > > -- > > Michael Iatrou (mrlj) > > ok. The first image is a fragment of a payment form from Ebay, the text is > unreadable > > http://imagebin.org/30257 > > the second image > > http://imagebin.org/30259 > > is a printout of the website > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/ > > the text is also mangled in this image, > > Thanks for any help you can give me. It used to work fine. I am running an > up to date Lanny system. > > Chris
I had a very similar problem recently, which Florian helped me to solve (with great patience and graciousness). The thread begins here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg00692.html I believe that the steps that solved the problem for me were installing ttf-liberation (and then restarting X), and disabling bitmaps in fontconfig-config. > C. Hurschler Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]