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Bug 59911

Summary: Italic looks horrible (as does <em>stuff</em>).
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Shanjian Li <shanjian>
Component: ttfonts-jaAssignee: Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.2   
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/c++/const.qualifier.html
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Description Shanjian Li 2002-02-14 18:51:25 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019
Netscape6/6.2

Description of problem:
see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124306:
With mozilla build ID 2002020221, 
Italic looks horrible (as does <em>stuff</em>)
Not ALL italic looks horrible, but on the given URL
for example, the text "this is why a reference always must be initialized"
has the word 'always' stretched out and deformed with aweful
spacing between the characters.
In general this seems to happen for <em>, <i>, <address> etc
(see also the Copyright notice at the bottom of that page).

The font specified by the document is italic helvetica, mozilla resolve it to 
"-alias-helvetica-medium-i-normal--*-iso8859-1", which is an alias of font 
"-misc-kochi gothic-medium-i-normal--*-iso8859-1". But this font really looks
horrible. It is a CJK font with wide space, and it is not italic at all. If
there is any reason that this font must be kept, at least don't give it a alias
name like helvetica. 








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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install mozilla trunk build
2.load the specified URL
3.
	

Actual Results:  italic font looks horrible.

Expected Results:  A real italic font should be used.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2002-02-27 09:56:17 UTC
This bug should be fixed in 1.0-7 or higher.
You need to upgrade ttfonts-ja to the latest version.