Re: Ugly Text

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Ah, go ahead and ask in #fedora. They know the exact package names; I
had this problem for the first fifteen minutes. They're font packages.
Try searching for tahoma.

On 8/11/10, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:04 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> On 11/08/10 21:46, 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.
>> >
>> > Who else has noticed this?  Is there a known cure, say by downloading
>> > fonts, or font layout tables?
>
>> You have not provided a link?
>
> Quite right.  Sorry.  The link is:
>         http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 16:54 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> just curious, why would you want to print a web page?
>> I usually copy & paste any web page info to a word processor, and save it
>> as a
>> text file, or just print then delete.. That saves printing all the stupid
>> ads, etc, on the web page. Or am I missing something?
>
> Often the page doesn't have any such garbage on it, like the one linked
> to above.
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 14:01 -0700, JD wrote:
>> Perhaps (I conjecture here) that the web page being
>> viewed was created using Microsoft web tools
>> which use features or attributes in the resulting web
>> content, that FF simply does not know what to do with
>> or implements them incorrectly.
>>
>> Perhaps MS is highjacking the web page standards in
>> the same way they had tried to highjack java.
>
> Probably not.  The page linked to is from The New Republic.  I have
> similar problems printing from the NY Times.
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:33 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote:
>> You've hit it.. It's often missing fonts that cause bad rendering.
>> There are some web core font packages you can install that will
>> improve it.  You can also override the web page settings.
>
> Are these the ttf.. packages mentioned below by JB?
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:06 -0500, Jonathan Beatty wrote:
>> There are some font packages that start with ttf (if I remember
>> correctly) that fix this problem cleanly.
>
> No useful looking packages starting ttf.  Here's a list of all packages
> with ttf in their names:
>         SDL_ttf.i686
>         SDL_ttf.x86_64
>         SDL_ttf-debuginfo.x86_64
>         SDL_ttf-devel.i686
>         SDL_ttf-devel.x86_64
>         baekmuk-ttf-dotum-fonts.noarch
>         baekmuk-ttf-fonts-common.noarch
>         baekmuk-ttf-fonts-ghostscript.noarch
>         baekmuk-ttf-gulim-fonts.noarch
>         baekmuk-ttf-hline-fonts.noarch
>         batik-ttf2svg.noarch
>         brettfont-fonts.noarch
>         perl-Font-TTF.noarch
>         scottfree.x86_64
>         ttf2pt1.x86_64
>         ttf2pt1-debuginfo.x86_64
> Which do you think are the ones wanted?
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 20:14 -0400, fred smith wrote:
>> Having not yet viewed your attached images, I need to ask: is it ugly
>> characters/symbols, or is it the horrid layout?
>
> It's horrid layout.
>
> Thanks to all - jon
>
>
>
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