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Firefox misrenders linked fonts when printing, but not when displaying. This is a fact, not a question. I have made an HTML file to show this, and have PDFs under Mac OS X and Win XP SP3 to prove it.

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Tom.Phinney
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I created a web page that uses the new Google fonts API. Chrome, Opera and Safari all render it correctly both when displaying and when printing. Firefox renders it correctly when displaying but not when printing. I normally run Mac OS X 10.5.8, but also tested this on fully-patched WinXP SP3, in each case running the latest version of Firefox for that platform. Someone else tested it on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and had the same result. I made a HTML demonstration file, and created PDFs under the various browsers to show how each of them renders the linked fonts when printing: incorrectly in Firefox but correctly in each of the other three browsers that run on OS X. Please let me know how I can transfer those files to you, as I do not have a readily-available website on which to place them so that I can give you links.

I created a web page that uses the new Google fonts API. Chrome, Opera and Safari all render it correctly both when displaying and when printing. Firefox renders it correctly when displaying but not when printing. I normally run Mac OS X 10.5.8, but also tested this on fully-patched WinXP SP3, in each case running the latest version of Firefox for that platform. Someone else tested it on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and had the same result. I made a HTML demonstration file, and created PDFs under the various browsers to show how each of them renders the linked fonts when printing: incorrectly in Firefox but correctly in each of the other three browsers that run on OS X. Please let me know how I can transfer those files to you, as I do not have a readily-available website on which to place them so that I can give you links.