Re: [Mostly Solved] Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 20:30:05 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:39:43 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
> > 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:
[...]
> 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
[...]
> [none] Type 3 yes no yes 22 0
> [none] Type 3 yes no yes 39 0
> [none] Type 3 yes no yes 31 0
>
> Most of the fonts look quite good.
Maybe we have to be satisfied with that, then. (A font by any other
name...) At least your system is smart enough to only embed the
necessary subsets; I now realized that mine bloats the PDFs with the
complete fonts.
> The exceptions are Courier,
> Helvetica and Times, which are once again blocky and pixellated.
What are your fontconfig settings? Here are mine:
# debconf-get-selections | grep fontconfig | column -t
fontconfig-config fontconfig/subpixel_rendering select Automatic
fontconfig-config fontconfig/enable_bitmaps boolean false
fontconfig-config fontconfig/hinting_type select Native
Disabling the bitmap fonts makes quite a difference for me. (Whether
that is an improvement is a matter of taste, of course; some people seem
to dislike the "fuzzier" look of antialiased and hinted fonts.) This
affects primarily the on-screen rendering; I am not sure if it also
influences the PDF printer.
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