269513 - Times / Helvetica causes odd letter-spacing and href's to have negative margin.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ben wilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Helvetica is rendered incorrectly in Firefox.  This is also the case with the
default font-face of "Times".  Spacing of individual letters and words is
inconsistent, and "HREF" links appear to have negative left-margins, causing
them to overlap with the previous text.  If you should change the default
font-face in Firefox from "Times" to "Times New Roman", this problem goes away.
 We encountered this problem only while using "Helvetica" and "Times" fonts.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Preferences>General>Fonts&Colors, Either have the "default-font" for serif
set to "Times" or the sans-serif set to "Helvetica"
2.  View page without font tags or CSS-specified font-family, preferably with links.
3.

Actual Results:  
Same as described.

Expected Results:  
It should have rendered correctly, as it does with the similar "Arial" font, or
the "Times New Roman" font, in the case of serif fonts.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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