98967 - Fixed-width characters don't come out as fixed-width in print

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37685

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Characters that are rendered in fixed-width (non-proportional) type on web pages
seem to come out as proportional when printed.  To test, choose any page with
PRE or TT elements and print it to file or on the printer.  All the characters
in the resulting print-out are rendered in a variable width font.

To be sure my printer is not at fault, I tried to view the resulting PostScript
files with gv and Solaris's sdtimage, but all of them showed the same -- all
characters in variable width font.

A similar problem is seen when printing pages with sans-serif fonts which also
seem to come out printed in the default serif font, but that is less of a
problem because it doesn't make a practical difference.

However, rendering fixed width characters in proportional type makes source code
and other ASCII-heavy text look very ugly in print-out because the ASCII
diagrams, comments, etc. don't align the way that should.  That makes it very
hard to convince some printing-loving colleagues to try Mozilla.

This has been the case in Mozilla since at least M17, and possibly earlier.  It
is still the case with Mozilla 0.9.3 and the 0.9.4 build I'm using now.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yes.  This is an old well-known printing bug...  Duplicate of "[PRE ]Need
support for printing preformatted plain text"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37685 ***

Comment 2

[sujay]

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