Ugly Text

[Kwan Lowe]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net> 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'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.