Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview
On Sat 15 Feb 2025 at 06:47:23 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote:
> Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Unless you are extremely low on disk space, there is no reason
> to think that Evince or Okular will not run on your machine.
> Without their supportive environments, it will just be harder
> for you to change the way that they are themed.
Without a DE, okular is quite a large install. On my bullseye, it
would require 194 new packages, including switching fuse to fuse3,
which might affect ntfs-3g and jmtpfs.
OTOH, I have evince installed from when I set up the machine,
and 48 extra packages were installed at the step:
# apt-get -y install arandr evince fvwm fvwm-icons
I'm not sure whether the DCP-L2640DW is brand-new or just new
to the OP. I use driverless printing on my 6-yr old HL-L2390DW
to print PDFs, never having printed directly from an application
beyond using CUPS. Would that be worth a try?
For two-sided portrait, I use:
lp -d brother -o media=letter -o print-quality=5 -o sides=two-sided-long-edge "$@"
where brother is the device name. (It's wrapped in a function
of course, called print-2s-portrait, hence the $@.)
Cheers,
David.
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