1309957 - Page / Save as PDF unnecessarily produces double-strike for bold font

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 991143

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[JJ]

Attachment: Comparison of Firefox vs. other pdf converter handling of bold type

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20160922113459

Steps to reproduce:

1) On Firefox for Android, go to a web page with bold typeface. For example, the Mayo Clinic site regarding seeing blurry objects:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/symptom-checker/vision-problems-adult/related-factors/itt-20009075
2) Create a pdf by using the context menu command: Page / Save as PDF
3) View the PDF.  Bold typeface is double-strike.
4) Create a pdf from the same website using most other website-to-pdf tools.
For this example, the free android app URL to PDF Converter, version 3.0 by OT Apps.
5) View the PDF. Bold typeface is single-strike bold.


Actual results:

The Firefox pdf converter produces double-strike characters for some bold type fonts. This looks bad, and if one wants to cut and paste text from a saved pdf, this bug makes it unusable.


Expected results:

Expected single strike bold characters.

Comment 1

[JJ]

Please don't mark this as a duplicate of bug 991143.

The discussion in that bug report talks about improving the separation between double-strike characters.
I'm requesting that the Double-strike strategy be eliminated.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This is a duplicate of 991143. If you want to propose a different solution it can be a comment. Keeping two different bugs for the same underling issue will result in divergent discussion.

As I recall the double strike bold is used when the font does not provide a usable bold in the same weight as the page requests. Not double striking would result in normal emphasized text.