Bug#712015: cups-filters: cups-pdf produces ugly pdfs through its pixelated font
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Xiaolin Wang <wx672ster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: cups-filters
> Version: 1.0.34-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> I oftenly use 'ps-print' within emacs to print some souce code into
> PDF. And it works great.
>
> After a recent system update, the generated PDFs use some kind of
> unclear fonts, and very hard to read.
>
> I open the generated PDFs with xpdf, and get an error message
> repeatly in the command line: "error: bad bounding box in type 3 glyph"
>
> I googled and found cups-pdf/cups-filters is blamed. Seems the
> pdf2pdf/pdf2ps filters work incorrectly.
>
> I tried copy a /usr/lib/cups/filter directory from another
> Debian/wheezy system to replace my current Debian/sid one. But it
> didn't work.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages cups-filters depends on:
> ii bc 1.06.95-8
> ii fonts-freefont-ttf 20120503-1
> ii fonts-liberation 1.07.2-6
> ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-6.3
> ii libc6 2.17-5
> ii libcups2 1.6.2-8
> ii libcupsfilters1 1.0.34-3
> ii libcupsimage2 1.6.2-8
> ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1
> ii libfontembed1 1.0.34-3
> ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-2
> ii libijs-0.35 0.35-8
> ii liblcms2-2 2.2+git20110628-2.2
> ii libpoppler19 0.18.4-6
> ii libqpdf10 4.1.0-2
> ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-2
> ii ttf-dejavu 2.33+svn2514-3
>
> Versions of packages cups-filters recommends:
> ii colord 0.1.21-4
> pn foomatic-filters <none>
> ii ghostscript-cups 9.05~dfsg-6.3
>
> Versions of packages cups-filters suggests:
> pn foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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