Re: adding a printer
On 2014-01-04 12:11:38 +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 04 Jan 2014 at 11:53:38 +0000, Brian wrote:
>
> > cups-pdf converts this to PostScript and then back to a PDF. This might
>
> Scrub that. cups-filters converts the PDF to PS as this is the only
> input format cups-pdf accepts. Then it is converted back to a PDF. It
> wouldn't seem worth the effort!
Worse than that: The cups-pdf generated PDF uses bitmap fonts:
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 14 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 150 0
[none] Type 3 yes no yes 243 0
Moreover:
* it seems to be corrupt (lots of "Error: Bad bounding box
in Type 3 glyph" messages from xpdf),
* it has bad quality (due to low-resolution bitmap fonts),
* the file is larger (e.g. 92355 bytes vs 57210 for "Print to File"),
* PDF metadata are incorrect in presence of non-ASCII characters.
However, with "Print to File", Iceweasel sends the PDF to a black hole
by default: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712936
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