Re: Trying to understand fonts in xulrunner (differences between Debian etch & RHEL4)

[Matt Adams]

Matt Adams wrote:

> I am currently using xulrunner 1.9.0.5 to convert web pages into PDFs
> using a modified version of mozilla2ps. This works wonderfully on
> Debian etch but I am having problems with the same program on Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 4 and would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right
> direction.

I managed to find the problem -

It turns out that either FreeType or possibly something using FreeType
(Mozilla?) has a problem with font hinting as supplied by fontconfig.

I turned off the hinting completely and discovered that all of the
kerning/size issues disappeared. It even improved kerning on my Debian
etch installation.

Thanks!

Matt
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Matt Adams
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