Bug#701102: iceweasel: PDF files are rendered in Iceweasel and are partly unreadable

[Henrik Ahlgren]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 06:40:33PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> OK, but it was "Always ask" with Iceweasel 18! An upgrade must
> preserve the preferences chosen by the user! That may be a RC bug:
> "local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade".

AFAIK the built-in viewer is the default setting in 19. Did you
explicitly set it to be "always ask" (the old default) in the
system-wide configuration file (/etc/iceweasel/profile/prefs.js)?
AFAIK the policy only talks about not overwriting modified system-wide
configuration files marked as such in the .deb, not per-user dotfiles;
and I don't think it guarantees that default settings are never
changed if a new feature is introduced. I think it is a fact of life
that programs sometimes change behaviour with newer versions.

That said, I compared the rendering of a couple of simple text PDFs
using the built-in viewer in Iceweasel 19 and evince, and I have to
agree that the quality of typography is supbar in Iceweasel. Is this
a Debian (or GNU/Linux) specific problem?