Bad font rendering on Linux

[slyrz]

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: 1.6.0
• Platform / OS version: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Just to let you know, 1.6.0 is pinned to a Chromium version with broken font rendering on Linux,
so screenshots for Linux users might look bad.

I think this was caused by a fontconfig update and was eventually fixed in this commit. This should give you the timespan of "broken" Chromium builds.

For comparison:

• Revision 574897 (currently pinned)
  

• Revision 576827 (latest build)
  

[MrTurnRight]

can i use 'npm update' to fix this bug?
i dont know how to fix it

[slyrz]

So far the published version hasn't changed. You can work around this by using the BrowserFetcher to run a different Chromium revision:

const browserFetcher = puppeteer.createBrowserFetcher();
const revisionInfo = await browserFetcher.download('576827');
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ executablePath: revisionInfo.executablePath })

[aslushnikov]

Thanks @slyrz for the workaround. We'll push an updated 1.6.1 shortly.

[aslushnikov]

For the record: upstream bug for this is https://crbug.com/857511

[aslushnikov]

Puppeteer v1.6.1 is live with an updated chromium revision to address this bug.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/releases/tag/v1.6.1

[aslushnikov]

@MrTurnRight I don't think this is related; there are quite a few reports with various solutions regarding Chinese fonts: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues?q=is%3Aissue+Chinese+is%3Aclosed

[MrTurnRight]

thank you , i found the solution. im so sorry.

[Tusko]

@MrMitch how did you fix it?

[MrMitch]

@Tusko I think you meant to mention @MrTurnRight and not me ;)

[WeihanLi]

thank you , i found the solution. im so sorry.

@MrTurnRight , could you please share your solution? Thanks