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 out from there. I can't say that I've noticed it being that terrible. Most browsers are rather poor at printing, and Firefox actually seemed a bit better. Of course it doesn't help that most pages were constructed for some stupid fixed layout on the screen, that doesn't really translate to paper (portrait versus landscape orientation, etc.). Usually, there's two problems: 1. The author is trying to specify a layout like a magazine using a technology (HTML) that's not meant for it. And often, choosing a layout that looks like a 9 year old designed it. Not to mention that the page is often constructed with badly broken HTML. 2. The author is specifying fonts that you do not have, and your system is using poor substitutions. Fixing the first problem tends to involve doing what you've done (use something else to fix up the page). Fixing the second one can be as simple as installing more fonts. I've tried installing the Microsoft fonts, in the past, and that hasn't always been a good idea. Some of them just look bad. More recently, I went with installing the Liberation fonts. They're designed as replacements for the Microsoft fonts, having the same metrics as them (so they fit the space), but not being identical in looks (so they don't look crap). That tends to make most pages look good. Or, at least, better, since the fonts designed for low resolution screens are different than those designed to look good on high resolution printers. Printing screen fonts often looks like everything's been done in bold type. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
