Bug#888204: cups-pdf: Ugly and hard to read output (Type 3 fonts)

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 22:48:20 +0100, Wolf-Dieter Groll wrote:

> Package: cups-pdf
> Version: 2.6.1-22
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> since upgrading to Debian 9, CUPS-PDF produces an ugly and hard to read output.
> Obviously because it doesn't anymore embeds vector fonts but only Type 3 bitmap
> fonts.
> 
> Setting PDFVer to 1.5 in cups-pdf.conf didn't help.
> 
> Is there a setting to make cups-pdf switching back to vector fonts again?
> 
> This was much better in earlier Debian releases.
> 
> Using "Print to file" results in an much better readable PDF output. See
> attached Image.

Thank you for your report, Wolf-Dieter; please see bug #847462. Advice there will
address your concern, as will purging printer-driver-cups-pdf and installing the
testing/unstable version.

Regards,

Brian.