370657 - Fonts are not properly rendered on OSX/PPC

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 288047

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, defect)

Description

[Juan José García Ripoll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060629 Camino/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060629 Camino/1.0+

I experienced this bug with Firefox 2.0.0.1 and I am seeing it, to a lesser degree in nightly builds of Camino. I did not appreciate the problem with Firefox pre3.0

Basically, Gecko does not seem to get the size of letters right when a sentence mixes italic/bold and ordinary charcters. Words appear overlapped.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open webpage above
2.Look for a word in italic or bold
3.
Actual Results:  
The spacing between ordinary and italic/bold characters is not properly rendered. Words overlap, making it difficult to read the text.

Comment 1

[Juan José García Ripoll]

Attachment: Screenshot of Camino showing an improperly rendered page

Look for the italic word to see the wrong rendering

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

You're running a version of Camino that's 8 months old; does the problem persist in Camino 1.1a2 (http://beta.caminobrowser.org)?

Are you running 10.4?

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

dupe of bug 288047 ?

Juan, could you verify that
1/ you have the following fonts: 'Georgia' and 'Times New Roman' installed in both ~/Library/Fonts and /Library/Fonts ?
2/ if you remove or disable the ones in ~/Library/Fonts, then restart the browser, does the problem still happen?

You can use FontBook.app to do all this.

Comment 4

[Juan José García Ripoll]

I have removed all of the Windows fonts (Arial, etc) and the offendig pages (which indeed included Google searches) now render properly with Mac OS X fonts. The problem, though, persits on beta: the size of characters is not properly guessed by Camino.

Comment 5

[Stuart Morgan]

Definitely a dupe then.