Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 08/11/2010 11:59 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Timignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au 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

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-12 Thread g
On 08/12/2010 12:30 PM, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 08/11/2010 11:59 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: snip 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

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:59 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au 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

Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
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 there. Who else has noticed this? Is there a known

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Frank Murphy
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 there.

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net 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

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Beatty
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 k...@digitalhermit.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: Text to be printed by Firefox has

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread fred smith
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

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
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 word

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Beatty
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 jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:04 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: On 11/08/10

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Tim
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 it

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Tim
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

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Tim
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 -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au 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

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Tim
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