Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview
"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" <kleenesj@UCMAIL.UC.EDU> wrote:
> I've completed my U.S. tax forms in the fillable PDFs provided by the
> Internal Revenue Service. Now I want to print them to (yes) submit
> through snail mail.
>
> In the past, I was happy printing from Acrobat 9, which is still fine
> for display purposes. But with my new printer (Brother DCP-L2640DW),
> printing from Acrobat fails. The request gets to the printer, but
> localhost:631 shows "Can't detect file type". So I've been happy
> printing from qpdfview, until now. Now the dollar amounts I entered
> on the forms look OK in qpdfview's display but print in a very thin
> font. Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers
> none of the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't
> try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window
> manager.
>
> Thanks.
So choose a different font that works!? Or use evince. Or give up and
read Bret's thoughtful contribution :)
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