144376 - [ps] inaccurate postion when printing with Bold or Italic

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Louie Zhao]

If part of one line is using Bold or Itatic, the postion of succeeding charaters
is not inaccurate when printing. Charaters after "Bold" are to the left of
proper position;Charaters afer "Itatic" are to the right of proper position.

Comment 1

[Louie Zhao]

Attachment: example of inaccurate position using Bold and Itatic

Comment 2

[Roland Mainz]

1. Is this a DUPlicate of bug 130438 ("printing messes up italics and ems") ?
2. This issue looks PostScript module only; the testcase
(http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/uno.html) prints fine with Xprint
module...

Comment 3

[Louie Zhao]

Attachment: ps file displaying Bold and Itatic problem (Moz's PostScript module)

In bug 130438, Itatic and Emphasis characters become larger and bolder;In this
bug, Itatic and Bold characters will misplace the succeeding character.So I
think it's not a duplicate.

Since xprint works well, It's really a "PostScript" problem.

Comment 4

[Roland Mainz]

Comment on attachment 83492 [details]
ps file displaying Bold and Itatic problem (Moz's PostScript module)

1. Fixing mimetype to "application/postscript"
2. Can you attach the HTML source for this postscript job, please ?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like bug 109970

Comment 6

[Louie Zhao]

Attachment: HTML Source of example Postscript file

Comment 7

[Pete Zha]

Yes
Dup of bug 109970

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109970 ***

Comment 8

[Roland Mainz]

Please bite me if I am blind - but bug 109970 ("Overlapping text when in print
preview.") explicitly talks about _print_preview_.
This does not look like a DUPlicate of bug 109970. Print preview has different
font issues since it measures the size of the printer fonts and then tries to
"replicate" these printer fonts using screen fonts.

"Real" printing to a printer is a different case...

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Reopening...

Comment 9

[Roland Mainz]

Attachment: Testcase (attachment 83631) printed with 2002-05-08-08-trunk + Xprint module (DIN A4, 300 DPI)

Comment 10

[Roland Mainz]

Louie Zhao:
Does attachment 83682 [details] print for you correctly ?

Comment 11

[Louie Zhao]

attachment 82682 [details] [diff] [review] is correct using both ghostscript(to display) and printer(to
print).So it's only about PostScript printing.

Comment 12

[Roland Mainz]

Louie Zhao wrote:
> attachment 82682 [details] [diff] [review] is correct using both ghostscript(to display) and printer(to
             ^^^^^

s/82682/83682/ :)
   
> print).So it's only about PostScript printing.

Thanks!

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- Confirming bug
- Adding "[ps]" to the summary

Comment 13

[Pete Zha]

Attachment: correct output(recently trunk)

I can't reproduce this problem in recently trunk.
See the output ps file

Comment 14

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: HTML testcase

this testcase is still showing the bug with linux trunk 20030911

Comment 15

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: output from the postscript module

postscript module puts too much space before the italics for most font sizes,
for others, there's too little space.  bold seems fine.

Comment 16

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: output from the xprint module

xprint gets it ok most of the time, but for 9-11pt font, puts too little space
before the italics.  bold is fine again.

Comment 17

[Kenneth Herron]

This should have been fixed by the move to Cairo for page rendering.