960398 - pdf renderer unable to render numeral 1 in font when printing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[Lloyd Wood]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

http://www.silver-peak.com/sites/default/files/userdocs/vx_hypervisor_compat_matrix_r6-2_revc_august2013.pdf

printed this document on printer from Firefox 26.0 internal pdf renderer.


Actual results:

 1s did not render in print. This turned
/bin/echo 1000
into
/bin/echo 000

and 'Note 1' into 'Note'
Print quality is poor, internal Firefox pdf plugin is clearly printing to low-res bitmap that gets printed. and vertical 1s get missed out


Expected results:

Document should have printed 1s.

Sorry, as with 952331, Firefox's pdf rendering is simply dangerous to my day-to-day work. I'm disabling it, and recommend everyone else do likewise.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Attachment: vx_hypervisor_compat_matrix_r6-2_revc_august2013.pdf

Comment 2

[Loic]

Attachment: vx_hypervisor_compat_matrix_r6-2_revc_august2013-print.pdf

PDF printed into PDF, "1" is missing.

Comment 3

[Loic]

It's fixed in FF27+.
Working range: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=9f8233fcce1d&tochange=ef3f5669b53e

Probably fixed by bug 811002.

Comment 4

[Lloyd Wood]

Compare
http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/papers/cluster2002.pdf
in the firefox pdf renderer and in Acrobat.

Using Waterfox 31.0. Seriously, the built-in pdf renderer is a bad joke.

Comment 5

[Loic]

(In reply to Lloyd Wood from comment #4)
> Compare
> http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/papers/cluster2002.pdf
> in the firefox pdf renderer and in Acrobat.
> 
> Using Waterfox 31.0. Seriously, the built-in pdf renderer is a bad joke.

As this bug is closed, I opened bug 1050040 for this issue.