[tlug] Re: CJK Printing from Web Browsers in Debian 3.3.2

[Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@example.com>]

Greetings,

I got Bart to do a print-to-file from Firefox of a simple test page 
containing Japanese, and send the resulting Postscript file to me.
I could see the Japanese in it fine on my FC4 system using gv 3.6.1.

On inspecting the Postscript, it appears that Firefox has done all the 
text in Unicode, with no embebbed fonts, e.g.:

840 13697 moveto
(\123\060\214\060\157\060\306\060\271\060\310\060\140\060\121\060\002\060) unicodeshow

My guess is this is the main difference between Mozilla Suite and
Firefox, and the reason Bart can't print from Firefox is that his
printer setup can't grok native Unicode in Postscript.

Jim

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