Bug 452771 - Fedora's firefox produces garbled text for certain websites
Summary: Fedora's firefox produces garbled text for certain websites
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-24 22:49 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-10-24 15:19:10 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:

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Postscript output from Fedora firefox (746.87 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-06-24 22:49 UTC, Orion Poplawski 		no flags Details
Postscript output from Mozilla firefox (793.06 KB, application/x-tar)
2008-06-24 22:50 UTC, Orion Poplawski 		no flags Details
Reproduction of the issue (530.75 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-07-29 23:12 UTC, Matěj Cepl 		no flags Details
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Description Orion Poplawski 2008-06-24 22:49:47 UTC 
Description of problem:

When using Fedora's firefox and printing
http://www.cmcc.it/web/public/sparc-ga2008 certain text is garbled.  Prints fine
using firefox 2.0.0.14 downloaded from mozilla.org.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-2.0.0.14-1.fc8
Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2008-06-24 22:49:47 UTC 
Created attachment 310199 [details]
Postscript output from Fedora firefox
Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2008-06-24 22:50:36 UTC 
Created attachment 310200 [details]
Postscript output from Mozilla firefox
Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-29 23:12:57 UTC 
Created attachment 312948 [details]
Reproduction of the issue

yup!
Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-29 23:13:57 UTC 
Reproduced on dell-pe830-02.rhts.bos.redhat.com (fresh RHTS F8 machine upgraded
to the latest packages).
Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-29 23:16:10 UTC 
Behdad, isn't this cairo issue?
Comment 6 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-07-30 22:03:42 UTC 
Our printing uses Pango.  Mozilla's doesn't.

No cairo, no.  It's in our firefox+pango-printing patch.
Comment 7 Martin Stransky 2008-10-24 15:19:10 UTC 
The printout is fixed in F9/Firefox3....closing as RAWHIDE.
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