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

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:04:27AM +0100, Brian Potkin 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.

I'm seeing this bug too (I think), but I don't even have a file
/etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd. The only file on my system matching PDF.ppd is
/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/Generic-PDF_Printer-PDF.ppd , and:

$ grep DefaultResolution /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/Generic-PDF_Printer-PDF.ppd
*DefaultResolution: 600dpi

Any suggestions? Dumping files to pdf and printing on the server was
my workaround for #769058, but this bug is getting in the way of that.

http://www.einval.com/~steve/tmp/wibble.pdf

is not great. :-(

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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