#784562 iceweasel: selecting dreadful fonts for printing

Package:
iceweasel
Source:
firefox-esr
Submitter:
Mark Carroll
Date:
2025-09-18 07:32:10 UTC
Severity:
normal
#784562#5
Date:
2015-05-06 16:47:33 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Even with -safe-mode Iceweasel shows fonts just fine in the window
but, when I print, it instead selects something barely legible, as
if it were aiming for the tiniest bitmap font or somesuch. How to
have it select something more sensible? Will attach example of
print-to-file.

Printing from Chromium instead, or other applications, works fine.

Cheers,

Mark
#784562#10
Date:
2015-05-06 17:03:38 UTC
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#784562#15
Date:
2015-11-03 09:52:58 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

it seems the bug is caused by #776801.

Running (as root)

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config ; dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

fixed it for me.

Best regards,

Johannes
#784562#20
Date:
2025-09-18 07:29:21 UTC
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src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.

Andreas