Bug#712015: cups-filters: cups-pdf produces ugly pdfs through its pixelated font
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 01:46:48AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
>On Sat 24 Oct 2015 at 23:55:37 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
>You would only have /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd if you had cups-pdf installed.
>
>> $ 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. :-(
>
>Viewed with mupdf, xpdf and evince it's almost acceptable if you squint
>at it. Viewed with Iceweasel it is awful. The PDF has been created by
>cairo 1.9.5 so I guess you have printed to file from a GTK application
>like Iceweasel. CUPS is not involved in this process.
ACK. Apologies for the noise, this came from iceweasel.
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