GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 271715
Print preview font behavior differs in Draft folder
Last modified: 2008-06-27 03:25:29 UTC
Description of Problem: The Print preview window does not follow font changes in preferences (behavior differs from INBOX) Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Create a draft message 2. Play with font settings. (Sans 8/10 Monpsace 8/10) 3. Re-open Print preview after each change. Actual Results: The fonts used stays the same (differs from behavior in IMAP INBOX folder). Expected Results: Fonts should act the same no matter which folder How often does this happen? Always Additional Information: The font does not consistently become larger when you change the font in the INBOX folder (Print preview). I have found that the largest font was used when using Sans 8 and Monospace 8 and the smallest font is used when Sans 8 and Monospace 10 is used
how do you change fonts for the print preview?
adding keyword
The Print Preview windows font is in some way tied to the combination of Fonts that the user can select in: Tools/Settings -> Mail Preferences (General tab). Playing with the combination has an influence on the font used in Print Preview if you are in the INBOX (see http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7174) -> but not the DRAFT folder.
messages saved in the draft folder are full html mails, so that if you re-open them and change the editing mode, you lose no information. they are only converted to non-html when you send them. so drafts viewing/print preview is using the fonts specified in the mail/the proportional font, not the fixed-font. and it appears to override the size. this might just be a duplicate of the html fonts not changing like with the zoom thing. bouncing to gtkhtml maintainers for comment.
I am able to reproduce it in the following versions of gtkhtml packages in evolution 2.2.2: gtkhtml2-3.6.2.0.200505251324-0.snap.novell.0.1 libgtkhtml-2.6.1-2.1
The font kerning patch in bug #446894 fixes this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 446894 ***