65784 - [ps] All Chinese characters are printed as little squares

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Bruno Li]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010105
BuildID:    2001010517

All Chinese pages are not printed correctly. This happens at both Chinese web
page and Chinese mail, although the navigator/mail displayed Chinese correctly,
they only printed little squares for all Chinese characters. If user chose
"Print to File" and use "ghostview" to check the postscript file, it has same
problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any Chinese page (such as http://gbchinese.yahoo.com)
2. Print the page
3. Check the printout.

Actual Results:  The problem is re-produced.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should print Chinese characters as it display on screen.

This problem also happened on all older version of Mozilla/Netscape (for Linux)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to printing

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

Since there are no dups of this I am guessing it is a problem with your printer.
Which printer are you using? Are you using XPrint? Do you have trouble printing
in other programs too?
This bugs needs some loving, pretty serious if it is confirmed.

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

spam : changing qa to sujay (new qa contact for Printing)

Comment 4

[Bruno Li]

Hi, I am the original reporter.

My printer is HP LaserJet, I am using 'lpr', not 'XPrint'.

I don't have problem to print Chinese ps (PostScript) files.

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Has anyone been able to reproduce this?

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bruno Li, Are you still seeing this behavior? 

Comment 7

[Rodd Clarkson]

I went to this page to test this bug and the page crashed my browser (twice).

The page opens cn.yahoo.com, then mozilla crashes.

Comment 8

[Chris Hiner]

I see this on Linux Build 2001053008.  (Using print command gv - to view it on
screen)  I'll attach a png created from the postscript output.

Comment 9

[Chris Hiner]

Attachment: PNG converted from postscript printed to file.

Comment 10

[Chris Hiner]

Might be related to lack of xprint.  See bug 6312.

Comment 11

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW based on confirmation.

Comment 12

[Roland Mainz]

Xprint module (2001-06-10-08-trunk+patch from bug 57820) prints the example URL
correct on Solaris 7 (see bug 49947 - currently not build by default... ;-((
)...

Comment 13

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 89675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 97113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 112057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is most likely due to systems not having a postscript version of a
particular font...

Comment 17

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Oh, and this happens for Cyrillic as well.

Comment 18

[Roland Mainz]

Cyrillic and japanese print fine with Xprint module, chinese should work without
problems, too (I did not test that yet) ...

Comment 19

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Rod, does the patch in bug 100328 fix this?

Comment 20

[Pete Zha]

If print CJK document to a western printer, all CJK character will be empty box.
This is because mozilla doesn't download font info to printer.

Comment 21

[Anthony DeRobertis]

*** Bug 159316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Pete Zha]

see also bug 144663, which will support CJK font soon

Comment 23

[kill this account]

now that the Truetype to Postscript printing is in (bug 144663) can we close this?

Comment 24

[Pete Zha]

fixed by bug 144663