Subj : Re: Mozilla 1.6 font printing Novell Suse 9.1
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Larry I Smith
Date : Mon Oct 11 2004 04:26 pm

Dave the Wave wrote:
> Hello group:
> 
> My brother-in-law is a little nervous about the security exploit issues with
> Microsoft Explorer.  He doesn't want to use his machine to download a
> document.  He knows I use Linux and wanted me to download an Excel document
> and print it out.  I said no problem I've got open office.
> 
> The Excel document wasn't the problem but the contact information in HTML
> was.  To my embarrassment, Mozilla printed out the contact information in
> this weird 'timber log' type font.  I RTFM and exhausted my options on how
> to rectify the problem.  I went through all the font config areas I knew
> of.
> 
> I'm stuck.  I want to fix this.  I'm on a Soyo P4S Dragon, 512MB ram, Suse
> 9.1 with 2.6.5-7.108 kernel, Mozilla 1.6 (most recent patch), and KDE 3.2
> (most recent core base patch).
> 
> I am so use to WYSIWYG of Windows XP, so this really surprised me with
> Linux!  A glitch like this has never happened before in what apps I use. 
> Novell if your reading, please QC your included packages with the next
> distro so they work as advertised.  Quality is everything!  Dumping a web
> page to printer is a routine function at home or office.  Try reading
> 'Lincoln log text!'
> 
> So if someone would be so kind in posting a fix, I would sure appreciate it. 
> Thank you in advance ! 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> David
> 
> St. Paul, MN

Try installing the latest Mozilla (1.73) for SuSE 9.1
from the SuSE site:

   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/1.7.3/

Regards,
Larry

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