490279 - Fonts look fine on screen but not when printed or print-previewed.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Cahill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009042115 Fedora/3.0.9-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009042115 Fedora/3.0.9-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.9

In the printed copies of articles from the NY Times, the Wall $t. J., the FT, and the NYRB, letters are moved slightly to the left or to the right--enough to make the articles a little harder to read than the same articles printed from Konqueor, SeaMonkey, or Internet Explorer.  The problem is due to Firefox, not to Fedora Core 10 or 9 or 8.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to one of the web sites.
2.  Select "printer friendly."
3.  Print out article(s).
Actual Results:  
The articles are readable, but are harder to read than those printed from IE, SeaMonkey, and Konqueror.  Note that this even happens on Windoze machines.

Expected Results:  
It should have printed the articles correctly as they appear on the screen. 

This problem has been hanging fire now for at least a year.

Comment 1

[u285178]

Probably the same as bug 403513.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Probably the same as bug 403513.

Kevin, do you agree? and is this fixed for you in FF 3.5 or 3.6?

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.