Ugly Text

Roger K. Wells ROGER.K.WELLS at saic.com
Thu Aug 12 12:30:12 UTC 2010


  On 08/11/2010 11:59 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim<ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>> The link is:
>>> http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time
>> That actually looks reasonably good, on screen, here.  Though grey
>> writing on white background can be a printing headache, as printers have
>> to dither black ink to make grey, so you get fuzzy printing.  But there
>> may be an option to always print text in full black.
> The page looks absolutely perfect here, both in the main Firefox
> display and in Print Preview.  That said, I do have the msttcore-fonts
> package installed.  Could the reason it looks like garbage for the OP
> be simply that?
>
Same here and I also have msttcore-fonts installed.
FireFox v3.6.7
uname:  2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64

roger wells
> msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch
>


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