Bug#712015: cups-filters: cups-pdf produces ugly pdfs through its pixelated font

[王晓林 <wx672ster@gmail.com>]

Yeah, I just tried 300, 600, 1200, 2400dpi while setting cost factor to 66. Higher DPI value indeed results better PDF quality. But I still prefer cost factor 65, because

1. Size matters. With same dpi value, cost factor 65 results in a much smaller PDF file. Examples:
• 66-2400dpi.pdf is 15523 bytes
• 65-2400dpi.pdf is 8386 bytes
2. Name matters. Processing a hello.c file into a PDF, 
• With cost factor 65, it give me a hello.pdf
• With cost factor 66, it always give me a _stdin_.pdf. So I have to rename it to something else before it's overwritten by next run.

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王晓林

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon 17 Jun 2013 at 16:29:08 +0800, 王晓林 wrote:

> grep 'DefaultResolution' /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd
>
> gives:
>
> *DefaultResolution: 300dpi

You should find that raising this value gives you PDFs with acceptable
quality whebn the cost factor is 66.

Cheers,

Brian.