Closed
Bug 429996
Opened 17 years ago
Closed 2 years ago
Text compressed in certain web pages
Categories
(Core :: Graphics, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: tmoberg, Unassigned)
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(2 files)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5
Some web pages have compressed/distorted text. Looks strange. A possible bug?
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install ubuntu 8.04 rc on a dell inspiron 2200
2. go to web page above
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Updated•17 years ago
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Severity: normal → trivial
Comment 1•17 years ago
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Looks fine for me on Ubuntu Gutsy. Can you post a screenshot?
Comment 2•17 years ago
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Updated•17 years ago
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Component: General → GFX: Thebes
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → thebes
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Comment 3•17 years ago
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The first thing would be to define "Text compressed".
My understanding is that for instance the "e" and "c" of "select" are too close or "f" and "e" of "feature" are too far. Is this what you mean?
On Hardy, the attached testcase seems to use the Helvetica font-family: it looks the same if I keep only "font-family: Helvetica". This font maps to:
fc-match -v Helvetica|grep file:
file: "/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb"(s)
I guess that font is to be blamed, I get the same rendering with ftview:
ftview -m "Please select any features you'd like" 13 /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb
By the way, if you install msttcorefonts (apt-get install msttcorefonts), the testcase will match the Arial font, which uses:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial.ttf
The rendering is looking better (even with ftview
ftview -m "Please select any features you'd like" 13 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial.ttf
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If you don't want to install msttcorefonts, you could configure your ~/.fonts.conf fontconfig configuration to use something else than n019003l.pfb.
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: trivial → S4
Comment 4•2 years ago
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Unable to reproduce in current versions.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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