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

[Bart Mathias <mathias@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:
> Bart Mathias <mathias@example.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Now that you point it out, that "Google for: firefox print
>>> postscript" is soooo obvious!
>>> 
>>> Certainly others have had similar problems.  The first idea I got
>>> for messing with about:config neither fixed the problem nor
>>> ruined Firefox, which is OK.
>>> 
>>> I think that I will find this bit from one of documents that came
>>> up useful, once I figure out exactly what it all means:
>>> 
>>> [...] You need to use ps2ps to transform the PS file and send the
>>> transformed one to the printer. If you print Chinese a lot, which
>>> I doubt, you might want to write a script as your printing
>>> command for the browser.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure this works very well. I tried ps2ps on the file you sent
>  me.  It produced a smaller .ps with the text embedded as bitmaps.
> Sadly they are almost illegible - fragmented and irregular.
> 
> [...]

>>> I have looked at the ps2ps manual--that's the main thing I didn't
>>>  understand in the above quote--but it doesn't look likely to
>>> help.  I'll get back to it tomorrow or Thursday.
>>> 
>>> And if that doesn't work, I'll come crying back to you on Friday.
>>> 
> 
> 
> By all means try the ps2ps, but I suspect that it's not going to help
> a lot.

I don't think ps2ps was the intended antecedent of "I'll get back to
_it_."  Anyway, my plan involves doing more Googled doc reading.

It is Friday, and there have been too many things outprioritizing it so
far...

Bart