Ugly Text

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:59 -0500, 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?
> 
> msttcore-fonts-2.0-3.noarch

I have installed this, and rendering for print is better, though still
not quite perfect.

jon