From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 28 12:51:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F71A106566C for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:51:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-15.arcor-online.net (mail-in-15.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CBD8FC13 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:51:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A18C357003 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:51:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.54]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B70213013 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:51:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (dslb-094-217-097-022.pools.arcor-ip.net [94.217.97.22]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C413528B610 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:51:36 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-14.arcor-online.net C413528B610 Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0SCpZM1076046 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:51:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull@lorvorc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0SCpZSC076045 for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:51:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <37358.1264459730@tristatelogic.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox3 printing woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:51:41 -0000 Christian Weisgerber 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