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[Solved] PDFs not rendering in Firefox and Thunderbird

Postby DiBosco » Nov 13th, '23, 15:30

Folks,

If I open a PDF in Firefox or Thunderbird they do not render correctly. The fonts are wrong, letters run into each other and it all becomes and unreadable mess.

Firefox: 115.4.0esr (64-bit)

Thunderbird 115.4.1

Has anyone else seen this and/or know what (if anything) I can do to fix this please?

Thanks
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Re: PDFs not rendering properly in Firefox and Thunderbird

Postby Germ » Nov 13th, '23, 17:21

Try the latest version of firefox, 119.0.1
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Re: PDFs not rendering properly in Firefox and Thunderbird

Postby doktor5000 » Nov 13th, '23, 17:56

Noticed that for thunderbird, the integrated preview was totally borked regarding the fonts and totally unreadable.
Fixed it for me by changing this to open with Okular in thunderbird settings instead of the preview.
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Re: PDFs not rendering properly in Firefox and Thunderbird

Postby DiBosco » Nov 13th, '23, 18:06

Actually, I had forgotten you can also do that in Firefox and it might be the best way round it, thanks.
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Re: PDFs not rendering properly in Firefox and Thunderbird

Postby morgano » Nov 13th, '23, 23:12

DiBosco wrote:Has anyone else seen this and/or know what (if anything) I can do to fix this please?


Absolutely.
Tip: Whenever someone feels that way, please check errata ;)

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Errata#Firefox_ESR
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