Firefox printing is ugly

[Joachim Backes]

Joachim Backes wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Addon: Using konqueror produces much better results!

JB

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

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