404972 - Handling of Type1 fonts broken - displays as garbage

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 396315

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul LeBeau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1

It appears as if the handling of all Type1 fonts is completely broken.
Discovered because I tried changing my default sans-serif font to "Helvetica 55 Roman" which, on my machine, is a Type1 font.  Pages that use the default sans-serif font then display as garbage.  More specifically the wrong glyphs are being displayed.

I tested all the Type1 fonts on my system with the same result.

I will attach screenshots to show the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the options window, change default sans-serif font to a Type1 font
2. Browse to Wikipedia
3. Scratch head
Actual Results:  
All fonts using default sans-serif style on the page will appear scrambled with random glyphs

Comment 1

[Paul LeBeau]

Attachment: Wikipedia main page with default sans-serif font set to Arial (Truetype)

What wikipedia looks like with the default sans-serif font set to the default of Arial.

Comment 2

[Paul LeBeau]

Attachment: Wikipedia main page with default sans-serif font set to Helvetica 55 Roman (Type1)

Chane default sans-serif font to a Type1 font and you get something that looks like this.

Comment 3

[Paul LeBeau]

Bug 366983 is probably the same bug, or at least related, but is worded more specifically and doesn't describe the general case of all Type1 fonts being broken.

Comment 4

[Tom Kloos]

Duplicate of bug 396315 ??

Comment 5

[Paul LeBeau]

Looks like it.  Thanks for finding that Tom.