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Upstream bug report marked "RESOLVED FIXED"
Marking this one also as fixed
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185700
Title:
Wrong kerning in printed pages if font hinting is set to "medium" or
"full"
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
Fix Released
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
1. Set font hinting mode with gnome-appearance-properties to "Medium"
(this is the default setting) or "Full";
2. Open a web page like
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7206411.stm
and print it, preferably to a postscript file, close firefox;
3. Disable hinting or set it to "Slight", repeat step 2;
4. Compare font kerning in the printed pages (converting the files to
PDF with ps2pdf improves the visibility of the issue).
Actual results: bad kerning in the first print, good kerning in the
second one.
Expected results: hinting mode shouldn't affect printing, identical
good kerning in both prints.
Last tested with firefox-3.0 (3.0~b3~cvs20080101t1000+nobinonly-
0ubuntu1) on Hardy daily desktop CD from 2008-01-24 and with a fresh
home-brew build from Mozilla CVS (checkout start: Do 24. Jan 12:00:11
CET 2008) as well with official trunk builds from mozilla.org on
Gutsy.
This report dupes the abandoned upstream bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403513 because I think
that Ubuntu maintainers should be aware of the problem that will
affect the usability of Firefox 3.0 for printing web pages.
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