Re: [opensuse] pdf character spacing/alignment problem

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The Wednesday 2007-12-12 at 16:39 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:

So, yes, printing the opensuse web page is indeed broken.

I believe that's a different problem though.

Possibly.


The problem you describe - and which I also see - is invariably caused
by the use of absolute position statements in the CSS in my experience.

The problem benefici described has very different symptoms, which I
believe to be font problems (most likely font metrics, I suspect).

Printing a page from the wikipedia prints the article only, without the
graphics - so it seems that wiki pages intercept the print function to
do printing of what "they" think I want to print. But at least the
wikipedia prints the article correctly, opensuse doesn't.

This is again CSS. They have different CSS for print media. But the
pictures should be printing. Which page doesn't?

Any. For instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_operating_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedLinux

prints only the text, like a version prepared for printing.

If I use print preview, I see some fonts are badly rendered, they print on top of others.

For the opensuse wiki... the main page, for instance. I tried also "http://en.opensuse.org/Creating_YaST_Installation_Sources";, and the preview clips text out of the page (the 'code' like text).



Printing a page from
"http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.8/ch04s05.html"; is also broken.

Looks OK to me (in print preview)

Here it looks simply horrible.

I get a thin column with the text, and a second column at the right containing the "learn" panel or frame, and only in the first page. The whole thing occupies 16 pages.

I have the pdf file saved... I'll attach a low quality, small size screenshot, so you can see what I mean.


The selector to choose print one frame or all or as displayed, is grayed
out, on all three previous tests.

Those pages don't have frames do they?

I have no idea. Could be that.

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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