198165 - [ps] Print to File Using Postscript/Default Creates Unviewable PostScript Files

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Shlomi Fish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When printing this document to a file using Postscript/Default, the
generated PostScript file is very unviewable using gv, and requires a
lot of time to be rendered. (so long I just cannot wait so much)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the URL.
2. Invoke File -> Print
3. Choose Print to File
4. Choose PostScript/Default as the Printer
5. Press the Print Button
6. Invoke "gv mozilla.ps" from the command line.

Actual Results:  
I got a file that took a lot of time to render

Expected Results:  
Create a good Postscript file.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Did you have antialiasing turned on in gv?  I'd suggest turning it off when
viewing Mozilla output, since Mozilla does its own font stuff....

(Also, shouldn't the quality of the file be measured by how well it prints
rather than how well gv can view it?)

Comment 2

[Shlomi Fish]

With anti-aliasing turned off the file is viewed quickly enough. 

However, the fonts are not displayed correctly in accordance to bug 178057
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178057)

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Does this belong in Bidi or printing?

Comment 4

[Roland Mainz]

Simon Montagu wrote:
> Does this belong in Bidi or printing?

Printing, PostScript module...

Comment 5

[simon annear]

Hi Shlomi

I am unable to reproduce this problem as the URL is no longer accessible.  

Are you able to confirm if this problem still exists?

Thanks

Comment 6

[Shlomi Fish]

OK, I restored the file. This time it's in a new URL. I should note that now 
it does not take a long time to render using gv (but then again, I upgraded 
PostScript recently), but it looks entirely wrong. 

Comment 7

[Jungshik Shin]

Please, try a recent nightly. Also note that there are a few different printing
modules. If you try a recent nightly with gtk2+xft enabled, it should work more
or less fine. 

Comment 8

[Shlomi Fish]

Well the most recent nightly build with gtk2+xft indeed renders the document to
PostScript more or less fine. Should I also try without gtk2+xft?

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