From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Epiphany/1.2.7 Description of problem: Trutype rendering is superbly implemented in the GNOME desktop environment and 'epiphany' is no exception in this respect. However, despite the beautifully rendered on-screen web pages, printing output is pretty poor. In this case, 'epiphany' actually falls back to using plain PS fonts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): epiphany-1.2.7-0.2.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install some cute TrueType fonts available for GNOME. 2. Watch epiphany render a suitable web page using them. 3. Print the web page ... . Actual Results: Printer output is way different from what is seen on the screen. Expected Results: Printer output should correspond to the screen image. Additional info:
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Still no truetype printing in epiphany-1.6.1-2.
After rebuilding "epiphany-1.8.0-1" from the development tree for FC4, "epiphany" uses the GNOME printing interface. I always hoped, that this change was finally going to provide truetype printing as for other GNOME applications such as "abiword". However, after printing some test pages, the output still looks very much like the previous plain mozilla like Postscript output. I remember that "xprint" support in FC was denied as the developers preferred the genuine GNOME printing support. Moreover, the printing quality is quite bad, e.g. Pictures get printed over by text, etc.
Still no truetype printing with epiphany-1.9.2-1.
Due to lack of any activity for more than 1 year, I have submitted an equivalent bug report at: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323892
Still no truetype printing with epiphany-1.9.4-1.
Still no truetype printing with epiphany-1.9.7-1.
According to Comment #5 of Bug #112879, the issue is due to an outdated "gecko" backend. Current version is 1.7, but improved font rendering is only implemented in version 1.8. I checked against current "firefox-1.5.0.1-3" from the "rawhide" tree. As a matter of fact, here, "TrueType" printing works out of the box (without "xprint" etc.). Other distros build "epiphany" against "firefox" which allows the former to benefit from the more recent "gecko" backend of the latter. Please upgrade the "gecko" backend in current Fedora rawhide.
Still no truetype printing with "epiphany-2.14.1-1". The "gecko" backend is still version 1.7. One possible solution is to build "epiphany" against "xulrunner". Any schedule for pushing this component into "rawhide"?
After working around Bug #191150, Bug #191153, Bug #191154, and Bug #191167, it is possible to rebuild "epiphany-2.14.1-3" against a modified "xulrunner-1.8.0.cvs20060505-1". The package manager complains: "error: Failed dependencies: libxul.so is needed by epiphany-2.14.1-4.i386", but after forcing the installation of the package (cough..), "epiphany" works, and TrueType printing is up and running!
Ok, fixed in "epiphany-2.15.4-1" thanks to "firefox" backend.