On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 07:49:20PM +0200, Christoph Lemke wrote:
> 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?
It would work if there are not-bitmap fonts. I had ugly results (for
printing even if trying to tell Firefox to use PostScript standard
fonts) until I installed the Microsoft TrueType fonts from pkgsrc.
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