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[Bug 238719] Re: printing hardy home page from firefox to pdf or hpijs looks awful, scrunched fonts

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From: madbiologist <238719@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:11:54 -0000
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Official support for Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" has ended.  If this is
still occurring on Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" please run ubuntu-bug
to create a new bug report so that we can get a new set of log files and
system information.

** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  printing hardy home page from firefox to pdf or hpijs looks awful,
  scrunched fonts

Status in firefox-3.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  # lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 8.04
  Release:		8.04

  # dpkg -l |grep " hp"
  ii  hpijs		2.8.2+2.8.2-0ubuntu8	HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive
  ii  hplip		2.8.2-0ubuntu8		HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
  ii  hplip-data	2.8.2-0ubuntu8		HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files

  I've a fairly new install of hardy, I've installed all recommended patches as of today. I do have a HP printer and I'm using the HPlip printing software quiet successfully (was really impressed the network scanner facility work out of the box!)
  However, I'm having a real hard time printing from Firefox.

  The fonts are on the whole terrible. Scrunched up and overlapping. This happened on the release that shipped with hardy as well as the recent update to ff3-rc2
  What's more, if I print to a PDF file, and open using the standard PDF viewer it still looks awful.
  I've tried installing some non-free packages too such as msttcorefonts and not much has happened really.

  The rendering on the screen looks good for the most part, but the printed (or rendered to PDF) version nearly always looks a bit off.. I though the default hardy homepage was a good starting point
  http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/

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