Comment 33 for bug 185700

Testing with mozilla-central and cairo git I'm still seeing ugly text. The recent changes to cairo subsetting to output latin text as literal strings shows how bad the problem is.

The following is an extract of the PostScript output from printing a webpage:

  BT
  6.788535 0 0 6.788535 68.400179 347.973235 Tm
  /f-2-0 1 Tf
  [(W)44(h)-44(e)-44(n)-44( )-22(a)-44(st)-22(r)33(o)-44(n)-44(o)-43(m)33
  (e)-44(r)33(s )-22(se)-44(a)-44(r)33(ch)-44( )-22(f)-22(o)-44(r)33( )-22
  (l)22(i)22(f)-22(e)]TJ
  ET

if text was correctly positioned when printed I would expect to see:

  BT
  6.788535 0 0 6.788535 68.400179 347.973235 Tm
  /f-2-0 1 Tf
  [(When astronomers search for life)]TJ
  ET

(In reply to comment #9)
> I'm not usually keen on overriding the user (or sysadmin's) configurations,
> but could perhaps tolerate an exception here because turning hinting on is not
> very useful for printing.

Hinting does not make sense for printing. What is the target device pixel grid you are aligning to? There isn't one. PS/PDF is a device independent vector based format.