[Bug 185700]

[Rdtennent]

Let me see if I've got this right.  If a user is so misguided as to turn on hinting for screen rendering, they get lousy printed output because Firefox
uses FcRenderPrepare, whose only benefit is to produce synthetic oblique, for printing as well as screen rendering.  

It may come as a surprise to Firefox developers but most font families
have an oblique/italic variant and synthetic obliquing is hardly ever
necessary.  Surely this minor benefit doesn't compensate for lousy
printed output for *everybody*.

And it seems the only workaround is for me to fix the ~/.fonts.conf
files of my users and beg them not to change font settings.  And this
has been known for over a year and no one has volunteered to fix this
bug.  Not surprisingly, no other application seems to have this problem;
in particular google-chrome produces good printed output. Need I say
more?

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Title:
  Wrong kerning in printed pages if font hinting is set to "medium" or "full"