Closed Bug 65784 Opened 24 years ago Closed 22 years ago

[ps] All Chinese characters are printed as little squares

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(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED FIXED
Future

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(Reporter: LiBruno, Assigned: dcone)

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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)
Over to printing
Assignee: rginda → dcone
Component: chatzilla → Printing
QA Contact: mozilla → shrir
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.
spam : changing qa to sujay (new qa contact for Printing)
QA Contact: shrir → sujay
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.
Has anyone been able to reproduce this?
Bruno Li, Are you still seeing this behavior?
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.
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.
Might be related to lack of xprint. See bug 6312.
Marking NEW based on confirmation.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.3
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... ;-(( )...
*** Bug 89675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.3 → mozilla0.9.4
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.4 → mozilla0.9.6
*** Bug 97113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.6 → mozilla0.9.9
*** Bug 112057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is most likely due to systems not having a postscript version of a particular font...
Oh, and this happens for Cyrillic as well.
Cyrillic and japanese print fine with Xprint module, chinese should work without problems, too (I did not test that yet) ...
Summary: All Chinese characters are printed as little squares → [ps] All Chinese characters are printed as little squares
Rod, does the patch in bug 100328 fix this?
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.9 → Future
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.
Blocks: 157675
*** Bug 159316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
see also bug 144663, which will support CJK font soon
now that the Truetype to Postscript printing is in (bug 144663) can we close this?
fixed by bug 144663
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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