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I was looking for it too - I've never seen Safari render anything that badly, and I'm not convinced until I see it in person

This article is actually espousing the fillText (Canvas) rendering quality and not standard HTML text rendering.

Here's a screenshot of the source PDF viewed in Preview.app on OSX with "Actual Size" zoom: http://cl.ly/1nr0

From the TFA ... All of the text is rendered with the canvas .fillText.

Of course you haven't seen anything that badly since there aren't many HTML5 apps around that render text on canvas. Duh!

Here, you can create your own test page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_text_using_a_canvas

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