Firefox3 printing woes

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Thu Jan 28 12:51:41 UTC 2010


Christian Weisgerber <naddy at 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.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de



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