On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 08:04:06 +0530, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > > > For a long time I have been facing poor quality pdf output (poor > > > resolution fonts with pixels appearing) from the "Print to File" dialog > > > of firefox. I somehow thought it was firefox problem. > > > > I had the same issue until I disabled bitmap fonts in fontconfig. > > > > ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/ > > That was nothing short of magic and saved me the day! Thanks a lot. > > It is not obvious to many users. What would be a permanent solution to it?
I think disabled bitmap fonts is the default setting in many Linux distributions. And that's why firefox & co. work out of the box there. Maybe NetBSD could disable them by default as well? Christoph
