[SOLVED]Firefox prints garbled/pixelized text on paper and pdf

RJQ · 2015-06-23 17:22:04

Its been more than a month since I can't print anything from Firefox, the text is mostly a bunch of pixel-like blocks. I had reset my profile, remove all mozilla files, also reinstalled cups and re-set it, note that only firefox is at fault since I can print normally from Chromium and Opera, same as other programs. I was hoping to see it fix on the following updates but its been twice since it gets updated without any change. I can't find much about it on google that relates to my system and specs. I am on Archlinux/KDE up to date, with the nvidia propietary driver. I also wonder if there is something related to the fonts, I have many installed but never done anything else with them, I notice that once in a while some font style/size renders fine on the pdf.

I am clueless about what can be the problem. any suggestions are much appreciated.

Last edited by RJQ (2015-06-23 18:02:23)

dockland · 2015-06-23 17:24:23

RJQ wrote:

Its been more than a month since I can't print anything from Firefox, the text is mostly a bunch of pixel-like blocks. I had reset my profile, remove all mozilla files, also reinstalled cups and re-set it, note that only firefox is at fault since I can print normally from Chromium and Opera, same as other programs. I was hoping to see it fix on the following updates but its been twice since it gets updated without any change. I can't find much about it on google that relates to my system and specs. I am on Archlinux/KDE up to date, with the nvidia propietary driver. I also wonder if there is something related to the fonts, I have many installed but never done anything else with them, I notice that once in a while some font style/size renders fine on the pdf.
I am clueless about what can be the problem. any suggestions are much appreciated.

If you print to PDF, is the issue persistent?

RJQ · 2015-06-23 17:38:32

dockland wrote:

If you print to PDF, is the issue persistent?

Yes, in fact I usually just print to pdf, but to rule it out I did print to paper, had the same issue.

dockland · 2015-06-23 17:45:17

RJQ wrote:

dockland wrote:
If you print to PDF, is the issue persistent?
Yes, in fact I usually just print to pdf, but to rule it out I did print to paper, had the same issue.

I think it's a font thing. Can this thread help perhaps?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175827

RJQ · 2015-06-23 18:01:17

dockland wrote:

I think it's a font thing. Can this thread help perhaps?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175827

Thank you a bunch!, that indeed seams to fix it,

It bothers me a lot though that this suddenly happens (my system is more than a year old) and just with Firefox. Well, good to go now, we leave it here for reference; I installed ttf-ms-fonts from the AUR, print a couple of pages that gave me trouble before, every thing looks normal.

Last edited by RJQ (2015-06-23 18:03:20)

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#1 2015-06-23 17:22:04

[SOLVED]Firefox prints garbled/pixelized text on paper and pdf

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