Re: [m17n] japanese fonts in firefox revisited,resolved

14 Mar 2005

      Update:
I found that under my recent install, Unicode pages
that did not specify
<html lang="ja">
do no render kanji when printing -- only boxes
instead.

However, pages that specified <html lang="ja"> did
render correctly, as did pages in EUC-JP encoding even
when the lang="jp" tag was not specified.This made me
think printing was broken because I was testing using
google.co.jp, which does not specify lang="ja" in
their header.So in fact I had some Japanese printing
functionality all along during my latest install.

On the other hand, I had google.co.jp printing kanji
OK on my previous install so I figured it had
something to do with the locale settings. After some
experimenting I came up with the following:

LC_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8

This gives me menus in English, Japanese web pages
that don't specify <html lang="jp"> render/print in
Japanese, and also maintains UIM/SCIM functionality,
which in my case is everything I had hoped for.

BTW the above locale settings were set in YAST
System /etc/sysconfig Editor 
system/environment/language section and entered by
hand.

My version of firefox doesn't have font enabling
enabled and changing the font.FreeType2.printing
parameter in about:config doesn't seem to produce an
embedded ps file. So I guess I'll just fix up GS to
use fonts I like. But for me, this is but a bit
frosting on an already very tasty cake.

Mike

--- Mike Shegedin  wrote:
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"Mike Shegedin" 
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This time, I'm guessing that font embedding is
enabled
-- that is, FF is embedding the fonts into the
...
file
...
when printing because GS doesn't complain about
missing fonts.
Check whether Firefox is embedding fonts with:
mike@kibou:~$ grep -i beginresource mozilla.ps 
%%BeginResource: CMap IPAPMincho.Regular.0.0_cmap
%%BeginResource: CIDFont IPAPMincho.Regular.0.0
%%BeginResource: CMap IPAPGothic.Regular.0.0_cmap
%%BeginResource: CIDFont IPAPGothic.Regular.0.0
mike@kibou:~$
If it is embedding fonts, you should find lines
beginning with
"%%BeginResource" which also contain the name of
--- Mike FABIAN  wrote:
ps
the
...
font which was
embedded.
...
I'm curious to know what turns font embedding on
and
off when printing from FF.
Type
about:config
into the URL entry widget of Firefox. You see a
long
list of
configuration options.  Enter "printing" into the
"Filter" entry
widget.
You will see an option
font.FreeType2.printing
which may be false or true.
If you set it to true, Firefox will usually embed
fonts when printing,
if you set it to false, it will usually not embed
fonts when printing.
Usually because it may depend on how your Firefox
was compiled.
I attempted changing this parameter and there is no
change on the output. I first tried it on an English
version of FF1.0.1 and then a Japanse version of
1.0.
Both behave exactly the same. They load the Nimbus
fonts but there is no reference or seemingly any
attempt at loading japanese fonts.
...
...
While I'm at it, do qtconfig settings have any
bearing
on any of this?
qtconfig has nothing to do with Firefox because
Firefox is not a Qt
application.
Thanks for clearing this point up. One less thing
for
me to futz with.
...
...
The ps file currently being generated has lots
of
Numbus fonts which clearly are not Japanese
fonts.
That's OK because the page you are trying to print
most likely also contains some Latin glyphs.
...
BTW I have wrappers generated for all of my
installed
Japanese fonts, so I think that as long as GS
had
a
file with Japanese text and refered to a
Japanese
font
then I would be in business.
To use that possibility, you can set
font.FreeType2.printing
to false.
As I said earlier, I tried this and it had no change
on the output. The resulting ps file is the same
size
regardless of the value. (I wonder if I should be
doing something to make the setting have an affect.)
Any other ideas, Mike?
Mike
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