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Package: cups-pdf
Version: 2.6.1-22
Severity: wishlist
In the package description text and in the READM.Debian file, I think it
would be useful to add text that clarifies some points:
While cups-pdf generally makes a good or at least decent job of
generating a PDF files, there are some cases when the quality of the
generated PDF is low. Apart from some corner situations, cups-pdf
needs not being used, specifically:
- when using a program able to generate a PDF, it is best to use that
functionality, for example when using Libreoffice, or Inkscape, or Gimp
- otherwise, it is advisable to use the "print to file" functionality of
the printing subsystem: for example in Gnome when you choose a printer
from a list in the printing dialog, "print to file" is the first
choice, above all printers names
In practice, the above two situations should cover the vast majority of
cases when a PDF is produced locally on a PC equipped with screen and
keyboard.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.22
ii printer-driver-cups-pdf 2.6.1-22
cups-pdf recommends no packages.
cups-pdf suggests no packages.
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Source: cups-pdf
Source-Version: 3.0.1-3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cups-pdf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 857165@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> (supplier of updated cups-pdf package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
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Hash: SHA256
Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:40:21 +0000
Source: cups-pdf
Binary: printer-driver-cups-pdf
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 3.0.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian CUPS Maintainers <debian-printing@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>
Description:
printer-driver-cups-pdf - printer driver for PDF writing via CUPS
Closes: 658004 813618 847462 857165
Changes:
cups-pdf (3.0.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* [control]
+ Emphasize that desktop users might prefer GTK/QT's Print to PDF feature
or LibreOffice's Export to PDF feature (Closes: #857165).
- Suggests: system-config-printer-gnome | system-config-printer-kde
Ubuntu no longer ships -gnome and -kde appears unmaintained.
* [postinst]
+ -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftocairo (Closes: #658004,#813618,#847462)
Thanks to Brian Potkin for suggesting this solution in #847462.
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