Firefox printing is ugly

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Wed Oct 22 07:47:00 UTC 2008


Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> When Firefox prints a page, the fonts generally reflect the fonts of the
> web page (at least they reflect whats seen on the screen when displaying
> the page), but the layout is all wrong.  This happens on all web pages
> but is worst on the N.Y. Times, and it happens both in actual printouts
> and in print preview, though not, as I wrote, when displaying the web
> page itself  Letters, frequently 'i's and 'o's to are displayed a little
> to the right or left of where they ought to be.  A small screenshot of
> an example is attached.
> 
> Has anyone else observed this?  Does anyone know the reason or a cure?
> I'm running Firefox 3.0.2 under Fedora-9 on an x86_64 system.
> 
> Thanks - jon
> 
> 

I can confirm this - for example on http://www.faz.net/s/homepage.html 
(a german newspaper). I'm running  Firefox 3.0.2 under Fedora-9 on a 
i386 platform.

Regards

-- 

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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