Re: [Mostly Solved] Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:39:43 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 17:46:23 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:09:09 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > However, I don't recall ever seeing these "DEDVIP+f-0-0" kinds of names
> > > before. Maybe you are still missing some other relatively important
> > > font-related package. Here is list of the ones that I have installed:
> > > http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer/celejar/font-related-packages.txt
...
> I realized that the Debian homepage is maybe not the best test case, due
> to the many non-latin characters that are required by the language names
> at the bottom of the page. Maybe the font names will be more conclusive
> if we confine our tests to latin character sets. I have now set up a
> simple font sample page here:
>
> http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer/celejar/font-samples.html
>
> If you still want to experiment with this a bit more then you can print
> this page to a PDF and compare font names once again. I see these names
> listed in the output of pdffonts:
>
> BitstreamVeraSansBold
> BitstreamVeraSans
> BitstreamVeraSerif
> URWBookmanL
> Courier
> NimbusSansL
> URWPalladioL
> NimbusRomanNo9L
> AndaleMono
> Arial
> ArialBlack
> ComicSansMS
> CourierNew
> Georgia
> Impact
> TimesNewRoman
> Verdana
> Webdings
>
> I think you should get the same output for all the postscript fonts
> (URWBookmanL, NimbusSansL = Helvetica, Courier, URWPalladioL = Palatino,
> NimbusRomanNo9L = Times). It will be interesting to see which fonts are
> used for the MS font names on your system; the ttf-liberation fonts
> should at least take care of Arial, TimesNewRoman and CourierNew.
Hmm, I still get unhelpful output:
$ pdffonts PDF/A_simple_test_page_for_common_fonts.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
XXCIFJ+f-1-0 TrueType yes yes yes 10 0
QEHNHK+f-8-0 TrueType yes yes yes 40 0
UFQSLH+f-3-0 Type 1C yes yes no 14 0
ITPEVV+f-0-0 TrueType yes yes yes 8 0
PGUGBG+f-10-0 TrueType yes yes yes 44 0
VRBBWM+f-9-0 TrueType yes yes yes 42 0
HSAEUE+f-6-0 Type 1C yes yes no 32 0
VNZQXL+f-2-0 TrueType yes yes yes 12 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 22 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 39 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 31 0
> Florian |
Most of the fonts look quite good. The exceptions are Courier,
Helvetica and Times, which are once again blocky and pixellated. Here's
the PDF I created:
http://lizzie.freehostia.com/A_simple_test_page_for_common_fonts.pdf
And here's a detail, viewed in Evince at 400%:
http://lizzie.freehostia.com/font-page-400.jpg
Celejar
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