On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Rogan Creswick wrote: > I've noticed some glaring regressions in the printed output from > firefox in the 3.0 series. A *lot* of new font "stuff" was added (eg: > ligatures) and it looks a bit like that impacted the printed output > pretty negatively... letter spacing (kerning?) is often very > inconsistent, to the point that I can't bear to read printed FF output > anymore.
Rogan, I've suspected that the problems are firefox related, not the fault of the GNU tools. Too much emphasis nowadays on eye candy rather than function. > Anyway, it's possible that Firefox is just producing really ugly PS. If > so, then Firefox may be the only thing affected by this problem, and you > could use something else to get text from web pages (lynx and w3m will do > it). Or <cough> switch to Opera :) I have Opera installed because there are some Web sites that just stopped displaying properly on Firefox. Example: Daryl Cagle's political cartoons. With Firefox-3.x the first page displays, but every time I try to display page 2 (never get past there) it instantly shifts to a "share me" page and I cannot return from there. So, I use Opera for that site on the rare occasions I check it. There's another couple of sites (including one federal government contractor) that are built with M$ tools and work only with M$ clients. Public money in the latter case but they don't care. Opera works on those, fortunately. Thanks for the insights. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
