454802 - Bad spacing when printing (normal text, only ASCII)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071420 Iceweasel/3.0.1 (Debian-3.0.1-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071420 Iceweasel/3.0.1 (Debian-3.0.1-1)

When printing, spacing is incorrect. Text is readable, but this is a bit annoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the HTML file that will be attached.
2. Print to PS or PDF.
Actual Results:  
The produced file has incorrect spacing (see the result that will be attached).

Comment 1

[Vincent Lefevre]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Vincent Lefevre]

Attachment: PDF output when printing the testcase

Comment 3

[Vincent Lefevre]

Attachment: snapshot of the displayed PDF file

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

FWIW, this is WORKSFORME using:
Ubuntu 8.04
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

Comment 5

[u285178]

Probably the same issue as bug 403513.

Comment 6

[Vincent Lefevre]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Probably the same issue as bug 403513.

Perhaps. To check that, how can I change the hinting?

Comment 7

[u285178]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Probably the same issue as bug 403513.
> 
> Perhaps. To check that, how can I change the hinting?

GNOME:
System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Details

KDE 3:
Control Center -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Configure

Comment 8

[Vincent Lefevre]

I use neither GNOME, nor KDE. Is there a config file that can be modified with a text editor?

Comment 9

[u285178]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I use neither GNOME, nor KDE. Is there a config file that can be modified with
> a text editor?

Have a look at the fontconfig stuff in /etc/fonts

Comment 10

[Vincent Lefevre]

I don't know if this is the same bug. If in my .fonts.conf file, I set:

<match target="font">
  <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
    <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
</match>

the bug still appears, while it was said in bug 403513 that setting the hinting to slight solves the problem.

However, if I replace hintslight by hintnone, then the problem disappears.

Comment 11

[Vincent Lefevre]

I can no longer reproduce the bug with the default hinting configuration and:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Iceweasel/3.5.8 (like Firefox/3.5.8)