201296 - With Times there is insufficient space between a hyperlink and the unlinked text that precedes it.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 118902

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Mac, defect)

Description

[Ernie Franic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030408
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030408

In the page at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Browser, go to
the "URL" section of the web form.

You will see the phrase "...you need to read the Mozilla Web Developer FAQ,
which explains..." The words "read the," which are not hyperlinked, and the word
"Mozilla," which begins a hyperlink, are jammed together.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a web site with links
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Links will be jammed together.

Expected Results:  
There should be correct spacing.

This also happens  when regular text is placed next to boldface text..

Comment 1

[Chris Casciano]

Reporter, what font are you using as your default font? (Font & Size)

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

->Gfx:Mac (sounds like a text measurement problem, perhaps?)

Comment 3

[Ernie Franic]

The fonts should be the defaults, since I deleted the ~/Library/Mozilla folder on my OS X system prior to filing the report.I have the PostScript Type 1 version of Times installed.Here they are:Fonts for: WesternProportional: Serif - 16Serif: TimesSans-serif: HelveticaCursive: Apple ChanceryFantasy: GadgetMonospace: Courier - 13Minimum font size: NoneAllow documents to use other fonts: checkedDisplay Resolution: 96 dpi-Ernie

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I got the following email from the reporter, with an attached PDF.  It looks
like a more readable form of the previous comment:

>The fonts should be the defaults, since I deleted the
>~/Library/Mozilla folder on my OS X system prior to filing the report.
>
>I have the PostScript Type 1 version of Times installed.
>
>Here they are:
>
>Fonts for: Western
>Proportional: Serif - 16
>Serif: Times
>Sans-serif: Helvetica
>Cursive: Apple Chancery
>Fantasy: Gadget
>Monospace: Courier - 13
>
>Minimum font size: None
>Allow documents to use other fonts: checked
>Display Resolution: 96 dpi
>
>-Ernie
>
>Attached is a PDF demonstrating the problem created from the OS X
>print-to-PDF command:

(In the future, please enter comments and screenshots (see "Create a New
Attachment" above) into bugzilla yourself rather than sending them by email and
making me do it.)

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: PDF (from print-to-PDF) from the reporter

Are you describing a problem that shows up using Print-to-PDF, or while looking
at web pages?

Comment 6

[Ernie Franic]

It's a problem looking at web pages. I just used the print-to-PDF function to demonstrate what I was seeing.  Sorry about the attachment...just a newbie...(-:

Comment 7

[Chris Casciano]

bug 198664 is hanging out there unconfirmed. Sounds and looks like the same
problem, although I haven't run into it on my end. I'd dupe this to that but I
don't know enough about font rendering to know if this is one problem and its
just that only a few fonts run into it or if the problem is specfic to
individual fonts (I'd guess the first)

Comment 8

[Ernie Franic]

I think this is the same problem that folks discovered in bug 198664.

Comment 9

[David Lawhon]

I'm not seeing this problem on Mozilla 1.8a4 (8/28/04 build) running MacOSX
10.3.5 using "Times" as the Serif font at the reported URL or any other URL's
I've run across.

-- David Lawhon

Comment 10

[Ernie Franic]

(In reply to comment #9)

I've been out of the loop over a year on this one.  Never thought I'd hear about it again... anyway, I 
believe the issue is tied to use of third-party font managers (in my case, Suitcase) and replacing the 
Apple default versions of fonts such as Helvetica and Times with Adobe's PostScript versions.

> I'm not seeing this problem on Mozilla 1.8a4 (8/28/04 build) running MacOSX
> 10.3.5 using "Times" as the Serif font at the reported URL or any other URL's
> I've run across.
> 
> -- David Lawhon

Comment 11

[jrblier]

This bug is a duplicate of Bug 118902. This one have screenshots.

A while ago it involved only Classic builds. But now all Mac OS X builds
(Mozilla and Firefox) can't properly display PostScript fonts.

The Default Mac OS X uses a TrueType font file. However, a lot of user will
replace it with a PostScript version. Doing so will generate a lot of display
glitches when using Mozilla products.

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118902 ***