Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:41:14AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote:

> 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?

In Firefox or in X?
How do I tell?    I don't see anything that looks like
those names in X.../fonts directory

////jerry


> -- 
> Mel