Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

[Mel Flynn]

On Monday 15 June 2009 11:18:42 Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote:
> > hi there,
> >
> > when i try printing certain website the font looks very pixelated and i
> > can't read anything. the same happens if i tell firefox to redirect the
> > print output to a pdf or ps file so it's probably not a printer issue.
> > the website that causes problems has this in css:
> >
> > font-size: 20px;
> > font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> >
> > i'm running firefox 2.5b99, but i've had this problem with firefox 2
> > already. apart from certain webpages pinting works without any problem.
> >
> > might this be a font issue? or a firefox bug?
>
> I have something that sounds the same in Firefox 3 on FreeBSD.
> I just assumed I did something wrong with fonts - about which
> I know little.    But, if someone has some helpful information
> I would be glad to know about it too.

On a hunch, is x11-fonts/webfonts installed?
-- 
Mel