On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:59 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> >> The link is:
> >> http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time
> >
> > That actually looks reasonably good
On 08/12/2010 12:30 PM, Roger K. Wells wrote:
> On 08/11/2010 11:59 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>> That said, I do have the msttcore-fonts package installed.
>> Could the reason it looks like garbage for the OP be simply that?
>
> Same here and I also have msttcore-fonts installed.
> FireFox v
On 08/11/2010 11:59 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>> The link is:
>>> http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time
>> That actually looks reasonably good, on screen, her
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:59 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> I do have the msttcore-fonts package installed. Could the reason it
> looks like garbage for the OP be simply that?
Quite likely. In the absence of the requested font, the system will try
to find a replacement. That may be done by n
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> The link is:
>> http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time
>
> That actually looks reasonably good, on screen, here. Though grey
> writing on white background can be a pr
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:32 +0930, Tim wrote:
> I can't say that I've noticed it being that terrible.
Well, not for a long time (several years)...
I do remember some rather stupid renderings, not dependent on font or
webpage.
e.g. 12'34" would print as 12 ' 34 "
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On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> The link is:
> http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time
That actually looks reasonably good, on screen, here. Though grey
writing on white background can be a printing headache, as printers have
to dither black ink
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:46 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has
> had bad layout for years. An example is attached. The only way to get
> text well laid out is to copy it into a word processor (I use Open
> Office) and to print
Ah, go ahead and ask in #fedora. They know the exact package names; I
had this problem for the first fifteen minutes. They're font packages.
Try searching for tahoma.
On 8/11/10, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:04 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> On 11/08/10 21:46, Jonathan Ryshpa
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:04 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On 11/08/10 21:46, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has
> > had bad layout for years. An example is attached. The only way to get
> > text well laid out is to copy it into a wor
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:46:02PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has
> had bad layout for years. An example is attached. The only way to get
> text well laid out is to copy it into a word processor (I use Open
> Office) and to
There are some font packages that start with ttf (if I remember correctly) that
fix this problem cleanly.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:33:47 -0400
Kwan Lowe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has
>
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has
> had bad layout for years. An example is attached. The only way to get
> text well laid out is to copy it into a word processor (I use Open
> Office) and to print i
On 11/08/10 21:46, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has
> had bad layout for years. An example is attached. The only way to get
> text well laid out is to copy it into a word processor (I use Open
> Office) and to print it out from ther
On 08/11/2010 01:46 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has
> had bad layout for years. An example is attached. The only way to get
> text well laid out is to copy it into a word processor (I use Open
> Office) and to print it out fr
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