[Xprint] tiny font again

[Allin Cottrell]

I wrote (of printing with xprint 009.001 plus Firefox):

"The overall page size is OK, and the sans-serif fonts are OK, but the 
serif font is absolutely tiny.  At first I thought xprint was just 
putting horizontal lines in place of the text, but looking closely I 
can see minuscule text (the x-height is perhaps 0.2 mm)."

After some investigation, I see that serif versus sans-serif is not 
the issue.  The issue is whether or not the web page I'm trying to 
print calls for a specific font.  If a definite font is specified, the 
page prints OK.  If the web-page is non-specific about fonts, I get 
the minuscule output.

I've tested this on a trivial web page.  If I call for "times", the 
generated postscript uses NimbusRomNo9L-Regu_iso8859-15, while if I 
leave the font to default Utopia-Regular_iso10646-1 gets used.  The 
key difference, though, is that in the latter case the font 
specification for the text output seems to be omitted.

In the ps for the "times" version of my test page there is a line,
after the embedded font and before the text to be printed:

/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu_iso8859-15 44 f Tf

In the ps for the "generic" version of the page there is no such line. 
If I insert one, modeled on the above,

/Utopia-Regular_iso10646-1 44 f Tf

then the page prints correctly.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC