Re: Poor quality pdf from firefox and now graphviz

[Christoph Lemke <christoph-lemke%gmx.de@localhost>]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 08:04:06 +0530, Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > For a long time I have been facing poor quality pdf output (poor
> > > resolution fonts with pixels appearing) from the "Print to File" dialog
> > > of firefox. I somehow thought it was firefox problem.
> > 
> > I had the same issue until I disabled bitmap fonts in fontconfig.
> > 
> > ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
> 
> That was nothing short of magic and saved me the day! Thanks a lot.
> 
> It is not obvious to many users. What would be a permanent solution to it?

I think disabled bitmap fonts is the default setting in many Linux
distributions. And that's why firefox & co. work out of the box there.

Maybe NetBSD could disable them by default as well?

Christoph