[Mostly Solved] Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices
[Responding to my own message. I had neglected to restart X after
installing ttf-liberation. The problem seems to be fixed after doing
so.]
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:41:48 -0400
Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:00:09 +0200
> Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Here is what I get when I print www.debian.org to a PDF with iceweasel
> > 3.0~rc2-2 (output of pdffonts v3.00 from poppler-utils 0.8.4-1.1):
> >
> > name type emb sub uni object ID
> > ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> > CairoFont-0-0 CID Type 0C yes no yes 6 0
> > BitstreamVeraSans CID TrueType yes no yes 9 0
> > ArialBold CID TrueType yes no yes 11 0
> > Arial CID TrueType yes no yes 12 0
> > DejaVuSansBold CID TrueType yes no yes 17 0
> > BitstreamVeraSansMono CID TrueType yes no yes 18 0
> > CairoFont-6-0 CID Type 0C yes no yes 73 0
> > KochiGothic CID TrueType yes no yes 74 0
>
> I get (same IW, pdffonts 3.02 from xpdf-utils 3.02-1.3):
>
> name type emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> VKJNGT+f-4-0 TrueType yes yes yes 88 0
> RRTVUI+f-0-0 TrueType yes yes yes 9 0
> PGUGBG+f-1-0 TrueType yes yes yes 13 0
> [none] Type 3 yes no yes 20 0
> [none] Type 3 yes no yes 32 0
> GMTXSU+f-7-0 Type 1C yes yes yes 103 0
> RXRETH+f-6-0 Type 1C yes yes yes 101 0
> MFZMRR+f-5-0 TrueType yes yes yes 99 0
> [none] Type 3 yes no yes 108 0
> [none] Type 3 yes no yes 112 0
> [none] Type 3 yes no yes 115 0
>
> Which is pretty much what I reported in my previous message.
Now, with liberation added and X restarted, I get this:
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
DEDVIP+f-0-0 TrueType yes yes yes 9 0
LRSXWR+f-3-0 TrueType yes yes yes 17 0
VKJNGT+f-4-0 TrueType yes yes yes 20 0
WQHWKD+f-2-0 TrueType yes yes yes 15 0
PGUGBG+f-1-0 TrueType yes yes yes 13 0
MFZMRR+f-5-0 TrueType yes yes yes 31 0
GMTXSU+f-7-0 Type 1C yes yes yes 35 0
RXRETH+f-6-0 Type 1C yes yes yes 33 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 44 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 40 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 57 0
I have two fewer no-name fonts, but my named ones still have
meaningless names, not the nice ones you get. I also still have eleven
fonts reported, to your seven. Do you know what this is all about? [I
tried replacing xpdf-utils with poppler-utils, to get your pdffonts,
but the output is identical.]
> > The text that looks OK in your PDF has no CSS font specifications
> > associated with it, so iceweasel should render it using your configured
> > default font. The elements with the ugly fonts in the PDF, on the other
> > hand, all have this CSS declaration:
> >
> > font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
> >
> > Here is how my system matches these names:
> >
> > $ for F in Arial Helvetica sans-serif; do fc-match $F; done
> > Arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
> > n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
> > Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
> >
> > These font files come from the packages msttcorefonts, gsfonts-x11, and
> > ttf-bitstream-vera, respectively. Do you have these packages installed?
> > If not, does installing them give you nicer fonts in the PDF? If you do
> > not want to befoul your system with the evil runes of Redmond then you
> > could try installing ttf-liberation instead.
The Debian page, as well as other pages which had not been displaying
properly, now seem to be printing correctly.
Thanks very much for your help. I am still baffled, though, by several
things:
a) Should printing really be so crippled on Debian, with its emphasis
on freedom, if the MS fonts, or at least the liberation drop-ins,
aren't installed? The only package which depends on liberation is the
openoffice meta-package, which I don't have installed, although I do
have writer. Should I file a bug? Against what? And am I really the
first one to be bitten by this?
b) I don't seem to have seen this problem until fairly recently (I
believe within the last few months). I don't think I even had the MS
fonts or the liberation drop-ins installed.
c) Why is my pdffonts output so much uglier and less informative than
yours?
> > Florian |
Thanks again,
Celejar
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