Drew Parsons wrote: > The reason it's required, or at least useful, is that the mozilla default > printing driver (postscript) is, to some degree, broken. Although pages are > rendered correctly on screen, they are sometimes defective on the printed > page. For instance, non-latin letters do not get rendered (cf mozilla bug > 125006, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125006; this may be an > issue of inadequate fonts being installed), CSS styles do > not get printed correctly (text is printed in the default serif font where > it is supposed to be styled as sans-serif).
Uhm... this is only the tip of the iceberg - take a look at the http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133795#c61 (that's the "Mozilla 1.0 release notes tracker bug") ... there are over 20 (anyoing!) bugs in the PostScript module which renders it mainly unuseable for non-ISO-8859-1 users (and even iso-8859-1 users are punished by many of these bugs). Xprint was designed (and tested :) to fill the huge gap here and deliver printing support for _all_ locales (you can even print MathML with it :) on Linux/Unix... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /O /==\ O\ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer (;O/ \/ \O;) TEL +49 641 99-41370 FAX +49 641 99-41359 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
