Bug 88962 – selecting fixed-size font makes them unreadable

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Francesco Lamonica 2005-04-13 07:10:23 UTC]

Look at the above url, when u try to select the text written with fixed-size font (already poorly readable as there is almost no space between one line and the other) the bottom half of the lines disappear making them completely unreadable

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb  7 2005, 17:02:32)]
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fweb -ftracers"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fweb -ftracers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en it"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl
dvd dvdr encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk
gtk2 imagemagick imlib jp2 jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mboxmikmod
motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png python qt readline
samba sdl slang spell sqlitessl tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid zlib
linguas_en linguas_it"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Peter Johanson (RETIRED) 2005-04-13 08:28:04 UTC]

What browser (including the exact version)? What font? More details are definitely needed. Thanks.

[Comment 2 Francesco Lamonica 2005-04-13 08:33:50 UTC]

sorry for the lack of info
mozilla-firefox 1.0.2 compiled from sources (64bit)
the problem arises with default fixed-widht font (monospace) but i tried it with courier (default fonts installed by xorg) and the behaviour does not change.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-13 08:38:16 UTC]

Well, I see the same problem with FF 1.0.2 on Windows. Seems like upstream bug. 

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-23 02:31:27 UTC]

Still broken with 1.5, even on Windows. Please, report this issue UPSTREAM if it has not been reported yet (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/) and post the URL here.

Thanks.