Re: cups-pdf

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:00:47 +0100
Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Monday 03 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote:
> > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote:
> > > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote:
> > > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote:
> > > > > I am getting very poor results printing to pdf from Firefox, it seems
> > > > > to have worked better in the past.  Changing the settings for image
> > > > > resolution does not help.
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried printing to Postscript and the converting it to pdf
> > > > using ps2pdfwr?
> > >
> > > They look equally bad.  I would attach a file to this email, but I think
> > > lots of list subscribers would not appreciate that.
> >
> > Take a screenshot, save it as png, upload it to imagebin.org and post a
> > link.
> >
> > --
> >  Michael Iatrou (mrlj)
> 
> ok.  The first image is a fragment of a payment form from Ebay, the text is 
> unreadable
> 
> http://imagebin.org/30257
> 
> the second image
> 
> http://imagebin.org/30259
> 
> is a printout of the website
> 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/
> 
> the text is also mangled in this image,
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give me.  It used to work fine.  I am running an 
> up to date Lanny system.
> 
> Chris

I had a very similar problem recently, which Florian helped me to solve
(with great patience and graciousness).  The thread begins here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg00692.html

I believe that the steps that solved the problem for me were installing
ttf-liberation (and then restarting X), and disabling bitmaps in
fontconfig-config.

> C. Hurschler

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