[Bug 185700]

[Adrian Johnson]

Testing with mozilla-central and cairo git I'm still seeing ugly text.
The recent changes to cairo subsetting to output latin text as literal
strings shows how bad the problem is.

The following is an extract of the PostScript output from printing a
webpage:

  BT
  6.788535 0 0 6.788535 68.400179 347.973235 Tm
  /f-2-0 1 Tf
  [(W)44(h)-44(e)-44(n)-44( )-22(a)-44(st)-22(r)33(o)-44(n)-44(o)-43(m)33
  (e)-44(r)33(s )-22(se)-44(a)-44(r)33(ch)-44( )-22(f)-22(o)-44(r)33( )-22
  (l)22(i)22(f)-22(e)]TJ
  ET

if text was correctly positioned when printed I would expect to see:

  BT
  6.788535 0 0 6.788535 68.400179 347.973235 Tm
  /f-2-0 1 Tf
  [(When astronomers search for life)]TJ
  ET


(In reply to comment #9)
> I'm not usually keen on overriding the user (or sysadmin's) configurations,
> but could perhaps tolerate an exception here because turning hinting on is not
> very useful for printing.

Hinting does not make sense for printing. What is the target device
pixel grid you are aligning to? There isn't one. PS/PDF is a device
independent vector based format.

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Wrong kerning in printed pages if font hinting is set to "medium" or "full"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185700
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