Bug 444627 - Seamonkey w/Pango cannot handle text-align: justify
Summary: Seamonkey w/Pango cannot handle text-align: justify
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: seamonkey
Version: 10
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-29 16:02 UTC by Andrew Schretter
Modified: 2009-01-12 22:39 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:47:58 UTC
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Image of mashed up fonts (171.75 KB, image/png)
2008-04-29 16:02 UTC, Andrew Schretter
no flags Details

Description Andrew Schretter 2008-04-29 16:02:47 UTC
Description of problem:

Using seamonkey-1.1.9-2.fc8 and visiting web pages with
any 'justified' text alignment produces mashed up fonts as
shown in the attachment included.  The problem is also
present in printing.

This is an example website that produces the problem

http://registrar.duke.edu/bulletins/undergraduate/2007-08/ugbhtml/UGBHTML-04-1.html

I have rebuilt seamonkey without pango (commenting out patches 81-88) and
it works fine after that.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.1.9-2.fc8

How reproducible:

Very.  Every website that uses text-align: justify or align="justify"
will cause the problem.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open seamonkey
2.Browse to
http://registrar.duke.edu/bulletins/undergraduate/2007-08/ugbhtml/UGBHTML-04-1.html
3.
  
Actual results:

Unreadable fonts

Expected results:

Readable fonts

Additional info:

I'm filing a separate bug against firefox for a similar problem. 
Firefox renders the pages properly for viewing, but renders mashed
up fonts when printing these type of webpages.  Definitely related,
but separate packages, so separate bugs.

Comment 1 Andrew Schretter 2008-04-29 16:02:48 UTC
Created attachment 304136 [details]
Image of mashed up fonts

Comment 2 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2008-05-01 15:01:24 UTC
Schrett, thanks a lot for your bug report.

I've occassionally seen this bug myself but didn't research the cause.
I find it great to know that disabling pango fixes it.

I can not find a bug filed to Firefox, did you file it?

I'm tempted to remove the patches as you did, and stick with the original
upstream sources.

Chris, Martin, the pango fixes that we copied over from the firefox package, are
those from upstream or your own development?


Comment 3 Andrew Schretter 2008-05-01 15:08:52 UTC
I did file a separate related bug against firefox :

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444630

In this case, firefox renders the page properly but
printing produces the mashed up fonts.  This bug
was in turn pushed upstream to see if they will fix
it :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431427

Comment 4 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2008-05-15 22:25:44 UTC
I can confirm this problem.

I confirm that disabling all patches fixes this bug, but according to caillon
that would disable the ability for asian people to print pages of their locale
at all.

I ran various tests, which surprise me.
I have links to two test pages (including this one) and some results here:
http://kuix.de/misc/test_mashup/mashup.html

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:36:23 UTC
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:47:58 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 7 Andrew Schretter 2009-01-12 22:39:07 UTC
Bug has been re-verified to exist in Fedora 10.


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