Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

[Alexander Best]

thx a bunch. installing webfonts completely solved the issue. :-)

Mel Flynn schrieb am 2009-06-15:
> 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?