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(Get the code!)
Let me see if I've got this right. If a user is so misguided as to turn on hinting for screen rendering, they get lousy printed output because Firefox
uses FcRenderPrepare, whose only benefit is to produce synthetic oblique, for printing as well as screen rendering.
It may come as a surprise to Firefox developers but most font families have an oblique/italic variant and synthetic obliquing is hardly ever necessary. Surely this minor benefit doesn't compensate for lousy printed output for *everybody*.
And it seems the only workaround is for me to fix the ~/.fonts.conf files of my users and beg them not to change font settings. And this has been known for over a year and no one has volunteered to fix this bug. Not surprisingly, no other application seems to have this problem; in particular google-chrome produces good printed output. Need I say more?