I have the same issue with Iceweasel 3.0.1 on Debian. Did you ever get the problem solved?
My output: (firefox-bin:4677): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Arial 14.625', text='English Hello' (firefox-bin:4677): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Arial 18.701171875', text=' ' (firefox-bin:4677): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Verdana Italic 12.466796875' -- Scrambled Fonts in Firefox 3 and Gimp after TT Font Installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232417 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
