Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 444627
Seamonkey w/Pango cannot handle text-align: justify
Last modified: 2009-01-12 17:39:07 EST
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.
Created attachment 304136 [details] Image of mashed up fonts
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?
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
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
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