461237 - Printed text doesn't locate letters properly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092318 Fedora/3.0.2-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092318 Fedora/3.0.2-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.2

When Firefox prints a page, the fonts generally reflect the fonts of the
web page (at least they reflect whats seen on the screen when displaying
the page), but the layout is all wrong.  This happens on all web pages
but is worst on the N.Y. Times, and it happens both in actual printouts
and in print preview, though not, as I wrote, when displaying the web
page itself  Letters, frequently 'i's and 'o's to are displayed a little
to the right or left of where they ought to be.  A small screenshot of
an example is attached.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter File->Print
2. Let printing take place
3. Look at the printed result
Actual Results:  
Printing is ugly.  See attached.

Expected Results:  
Printing is beautiful

I'm not the only person to have seen this.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

Attachment: Image of ugly printout

Comment 2

[Grzegorz Staniak]

I see the same problem with FF 3.0 (3.0.5) on two different computers - Fedora 9/GNOME 2.22.3/Cairo 1.6.4 and CentOS 5.2/GNOME 2.16.2/Cairo 1.2.4. The print output is simply hideous, looks like severe problems with kerning. On-screen pages look relatively OK. I attach a few screenshots (preferences with the chosen font, on-screen view, printout view).

Comment 3

[Grzegorz Staniak]

Attachment: Preferences in 3.0.5 showing font choice

Comment 4

[Grzegorz Staniak]

Attachment: A page from the CNN website "print" mode, kerning relatively OK

Comment 5

[Grzegorz Staniak]

Attachment: The same page after printing out, showing severe kerning errors

The printed-out page was produced through Cups-PDF, but the same effect is visible in direct printing. The same prpblem is seen irrespective of what language the page is in (well, at laest for a few European languages that I tested).

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 7

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

Attachment: More ugly printout

Comment 8

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

(In reply to comment #6)
> This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component...

All has been done as requested and the problem remains.  An additional example is attached with the title "More ugly printout" (attachment 481426 [details]).

Comment 9

[u285178]

Probably the same bug as bug 490475.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Adrian Johnson from comment #9)
> Probably the same bug as bug 490475.

That bug is fixed. And I do not see the described problem with http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/ when using current nightly build