* [ISSUE] Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg)
@ 2020-10-14 1:20 Veyrdite
2020-10-14 1:40 ` Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in " ericonr
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From: Veyrdite @ 2020-10-14 1:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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New issue by Veyrdite on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584
Description:
### Problem
Printing (to a real printer or to a PDF) any page with a font-family of 'Helvetica' leads to this:
It should instead look like this:
A lot of older-style websites (including a lot of invoices) use Helvetica. Absolutely everything ends up garbled like this.
Chromium is not affected by this issue, only Firefox.
### Cause & workaround
Firefox cannot handle the Helvetica fonts included in packages font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi.
Elsewhere (where? link!) I've read advice that you should not be installing these packages, however on Void they are dependencies of Xorg so that is not an option:
```
$ sudo xbps-remove font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi
font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.3_6 in transaction breaks installed pkg `xorg-fonts-7.6_5'
font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.3_6 in transaction breaks installed pkg `xorg-fonts-7.6_5'
Transaction aborted due to unresolved dependencies.
$ sudo xbps-remove font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi xorg-fonts
xorg-fonts-7.6_5 in transaction breaks installed pkg `xorg-7.6_5'
Transaction aborted due to unresolved dependencies.
```
As a workaround you can manually remove the offending fonts:
`$ sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/X11/*/helv*`
Firefox will then print perfectly.
### Solutions
I can think of several approaches, but I don't know what would be best.
1. Split xorg-fonts into xorg-fonts-minimal and xorg-fonts-all, so these adobe fonts are not installed by default. (I _think_ this is how other distros handle this?)
2. Fontconfig magic?
3. Complain upstream to Firefox
4. Patch firefox
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* Re: Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg)
2020-10-14 1:20 [ISSUE] Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg) Veyrdite
@ 2020-10-14 1:40 ` ericonr
2020-10-14 1:41 ` ericonr
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From: ericonr @ 2020-10-14 1:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-708101873
Comment:
You can also add the packages to a [xbps.d{5}](https://man.voidlinux.org/xbps.d.5) file.
1) I think removing them entirely wouldn't be terrible.
3) definitely
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* Re: Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg)
2020-10-14 1:20 [ISSUE] Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg) Veyrdite
2020-10-14 1:40 ` Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in " ericonr
@ 2020-10-14 1:41 ` ericonr
2021-11-18 9:37 ` orlovw
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From: ericonr @ 2020-10-14 1:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-708101873
Comment:
You can also add the packages to a [xbps.d{5}](https://man.voidlinux.org/xbps.d.5) file.
- for 1, I think removing them entirely wouldn't be terrible.
- for 3, definitely
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* Re: Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg)
2020-10-14 1:20 [ISSUE] Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg) Veyrdite
2020-10-14 1:40 ` Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in " ericonr
2020-10-14 1:41 ` ericonr
@ 2021-11-18 9:37 ` orlovw
2022-04-21 2:12 ` github-actions
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From: orlovw @ 2021-11-18 9:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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New comment by orlovw on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-972694105
Comment:
Just faced this not a while ago, I got ugly fonts on [GitHub](https://github.com), it also uses Helvetica font. In case someone else will face this I will leave some keywords:
ugly fonts firefox void linux
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* Re: Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg)
2020-10-14 1:20 [ISSUE] Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg) Veyrdite
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2021-11-18 9:37 ` orlovw
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From: github-actions @ 2022-04-21 2:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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New comment by github-actions[bot] on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-1104635051
Comment:
Issues become stale 90 days after last activity and are closed 14 days after that. If this issue is still relevant bump it or assign it.
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* Re: [ISSUE] [CLOSED] Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg)
2020-10-14 1:20 [ISSUE] Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg) Veyrdite
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From: github-actions @ 2022-05-06 2:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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Closed issue by Veyrdite on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584
Description:
### Problem
Printing from Firefox (to a real printer or to a PDF) any page with a font-family of 'Helvetica' leads to this:
It should instead look like this:
A lot of older-style websites (including a lot of invoices) use Helvetica. Absolutely everything ends up garbled like this; most often making it completely unreadable.
Chromium is not affected by this issue, only Firefox.
This problem has been around for a really long time (a decade? I had the same problem in Arch Linux many years back) but I have only recently discovered the cause.
### Cause & workaround
Firefox cannot handle the Helvetica fonts included in packages font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi.
Elsewhere (where? link!) I've read advice that you should not be installing these packages, however on Void they are dependencies of Xorg so that is not an option:
```
$ sudo xbps-remove font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi
font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.3_6 in transaction breaks installed pkg `xorg-fonts-7.6_5'
font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.3_6 in transaction breaks installed pkg `xorg-fonts-7.6_5'
Transaction aborted due to unresolved dependencies.
$ sudo xbps-remove font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi xorg-fonts
xorg-fonts-7.6_5 in transaction breaks installed pkg `xorg-7.6_5'
Transaction aborted due to unresolved dependencies.
```
As a workaround you can manually remove the offending fonts:
`$ sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/X11/*/helv*`
Firefox will then print perfectly.
### Solutions
I can think of several approaches, but I don't know what would be best.
1. Split xorg-fonts into xorg-fonts-minimal and xorg-fonts-all, so these adobe fonts are not installed by default. (I _think_ this is how other distros handle this?)
2. Fontconfig magic?
3. Complain upstream to Firefox
4. Patch firefox
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* Re: Firefox printing is sometimes garbled due to Helvetica in font-adobe-100dpi and font-adobe-75dpi (which are deps of xorg)
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2022-05-06 2:08 ` [ISSUE] [CLOSED] " github-actions
@ 2022-09-12 8:58 ` Veyrdite
2022-09-12 8:59 ` Veyrdite
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From: Veyrdite @ 2022-09-12 8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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New comment by Veyrdite on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-1243425631
Comment:
Issue still exists. Just had to _rm /usr/share/fonts/X11/*/helv*_ again so Thunderbird could print an email as a PDF properly.
Before:
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From: Veyrdite @ 2022-09-12 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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New comment by Veyrdite on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-1243425631
Comment:
Issue still exists. Just had to ```rm /usr/share/fonts/X11/*/helv*``` again so Thunderbird could print an email as a PDF properly.
Before:
After:
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From: Veyrdite @ 2022-09-12 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New comment by Veyrdite on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-1243425631
Comment:
Issue still exists, please keep open.
I just had to ```rm /usr/share/fonts/X11/*/helv*``` again so Thunderbird could print an email as a PDF properly.
Before:
After:
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2022-09-12 8:59 ` Veyrdite
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From: Veyrdite @ 2022-09-12 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ml
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New comment by Veyrdite on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-1243425631
Comment:
Issue still exists, please keep open.
I just had to ```rm /usr/share/fonts/X11/*/helv*``` again so Thunderbird could print an email as a PDF without garbled fonts.
Before:
After:
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From: paper42 @ 2022-09-12 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New comment by paper42 on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/25584#issuecomment-1243509664
Comment:
This is documented here https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/graphical-session/fonts.html#fonts
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