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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:51:35 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox3 printing woes
Message-ID:  <hjs18n$2a6o$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <37358.1264459730@tristatelogic.com> <hjqkum$2p8s$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>

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Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

> The problem is that various web sites (e.g. aircanada.com) apparently
> specify fonts narrowly by name, and if a commercial font such as
> "Arial" isn't available, Firefox somehow ends up substituting these
> terrible bitmapped fonts.  I don't know why this only affects
> printing.

Actually, I guess what happens is that the bitmapped fonts look
fine on the screen, but they don't scale well for printer dpi
resolutions.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de




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