135408 - [ps] Printing a page to PostScript calls non existing "Helvetica_Oblique"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P1)

Description

[Gert Huisman]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031103

When printing a page to PostScript mozilla includes the line
 /Helvetica_Oblique findfont
The name of the font is wrong. It should be:
 /Helvetica-Oblique findfont
           ^
When sending this file to a PostScript printer, it results in the error message:
 Helvetica_Oblique not found, using Courier
and the resulting print will be suboptimal.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ctr-P
2. choose Print To: File
3. click Print

Actual Results:  a file "mozilla.ps" (or whatever name you choose) is printed.
the command: 
  grep Helvetica mozilla.ps
results in:
    /Helvetica findfont
    /Helvetica-Bold findfont
    /Helvetica-BoldOblique findfont
    /Helvetica_Oblique findfont

The last line shows the incorrect fontname, using an underscore instead of a dash. 


Expected Results:  It should have printed:
    /Helvetica-Oblique findfont

I found this behavior in several builds of mozilla. 
The recent build mentioned above, the build that came with Gnome-1.4
provided by Sun and in the most recent Netscape-6.2 for linux.

Comment 1

[Thilo Kielmann]

same for me with Mozilla 0.9.9
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313

Comment 2

[André Dahlqvist]

"/Helvetica_Oblique findfont" is still what is inside mozilla.ps when printing
the page with 2002-04-04-04 on Linux. Confirming.

->NEW

Comment 3

[André Dahlqvist]

I must add, however, that my postscript printer does not complain about the font
if it's called Helvetica_Oblique. The printout is identical, at least to my eye,
with either name. But judging from a search on google, Helvetica-Oblique
certainly seams to be the right name.

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

Attachment: patch

changed the "_" to a "-"

Comment 5

[André Dahlqvist]

Rods, why do you future a bug that has a trivial patch?

Comment 6

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

nsbeta1-

Comment 7

[psfales]

For the record, we've found a printer at our site that chokes on the printout 
because of this font name.  When we edit the file to change the name to 
Helvetica-0blique, it prints successfully.  The printer is an "HP Color Laserjet
8550DN"

Comment 8

[Tobias Ringstrom]

I'm using mozilla 1.1, and this ***TRIVIAL*** bug is still not fixed.  It
destroys output on several printers, including my Brother HL-1650 printer.  Note
that ghostscript cannot find the font either (duh!), but it has a better
algorithm to find a similar font than most printers, which means that
ghostscript users won't have a problem.

Please fix it for the next 1.0.x and 1.1.x!!!

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 77829 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

sr=bzbarsky, noting that the r= was [e-mail]

Comment 10

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Comment on attachment 77829 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

a=dbaron for trunk checkin

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Checked in for 1.2alpha.  Thanks to Mark Roberts for bringing this bug up on
n.p.m.unix.

Comment 12

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 175723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 190923 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 227535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***