1758160 - pdf viewer fails to render fonts correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P3)

Description

[Watson Ladd]

Attachment: in firefox.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0

Steps to reproduce:

Visit https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/F6289C9DDB487716852587FB00546E14/$file/21-5200-1937710.pdf and see it in the built in viewer.

Actual results:

The fonts look terrible. I have reproduced in nightly.

Expected results:

The fonts should have looked much nicer. I have opened the file in Preview to confirm that it should have looked nice.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::PDF Viewer' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Andrei Purice]

Reproduced on the latest versions of Firefox Nightly (2022-03-07), beta 98.0 and release 97.0.2.
Setting up flags and a severity of S4.

Comment 3

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Did you reproduce this only on Mac or on other platforms too?

Comment 5

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: Fx vs macOS Preview.png

Hi,
I'm taking Andrei's place for this bug. I tried to reproduce the issue in release 99, beta 100.0b3 and the latest nightly 101.0a1 (2022-04-10) but on my end, there is no difference between Fx and macOS preview. There is a small font difference using Windows 10, between Fx and Adobe, but the Fx displays the pdf exactly like Chrome.
Thanks.

Comment 6

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

I wonder if this is only happening on a specific version of macOS then...

Comment 7

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Maybe this is the same as bug 1746707?

Comment 8

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

:watsonbladd, could you check that the bug is fixed or not in the last nightly build ? Thank you.

Comment 9

[Watson Ladd]

The bug seems fixed now, even in 111.0.1