CUPS-PDF output font sizes (Solved)

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CUPS-PDF output font sizes (Solved)

#1 Post by RetroTechGuy »

OK, it seems like I run into this from time to time.

Today, I was trying to print a PDF of a contact on LinkedIn. Notice that part of the text is fine, part is unreadable. I also often find pages which print what appears to be full size, but they are in some unreadable blocky printing style.

Has anyone else seen this?

I'm running Lupu5.28
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#2 Post by rcrsn51 »

Lupu 528 has three choices for making a PDF file - Print to File, CUPS-PDF and pdf-writer. Do you have the same problem with all three?

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#3 Post by RetroTechGuy »

rcrsn51 wrote:Lupu 528 has three choices for making a PDF file - Print to File, CUPS-PDF and pdf-writer. Do you have the same problem with all three?
I haven't tried "print to file", but get the same results with the other 2.
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#4 Post by RetroTechGuy »

Just tested Print to file, which is readable. Some of the fonts still look funny (blocky), others look normal.

I just pulled up an article, and saved to PDF. Note that some of the text is clear, some is blocky/crude. I get varying degrees of the blocky text, depending on web pages...
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#5 Post by RetroTechGuy »

Here's a page that prints clunky under CUPS-PDF:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... ost/print/

I'll see if I can find one of the really bad, unreadable ones...
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#6 Post by rcrsn51 »

My everyday machine is Quirky with an old version of Firefox. I saved your page above as a PDF and checked it in epdfview. It was fine.

I then imported the PDF file into Lupu 528 and checked it. It was still fine.

I always set two font preferences in Firefox.

1. Make the default font DejaVu Sans.
2. Disable "Allow pages to use their own fonts".

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#7 Post by RetroTechGuy »

rcrsn51 wrote:My everyday machine is Quirky with an old version of Firefox. I saved your page above as a PDF and checked it in epdfview. It was fine.

I then imported the PDF file into Lupu 528 and checked it. It was still fine.

I always set two font preferences in Firefox.

1. Make the default font DejaVu Sans.
2. Disable "Allow pages to use their own fonts".
Thanks rcrsn51! That fixed it.

Is there a pdf viewer that has a lower overhead? The Linked In page I printed ended up as about 1.8 MB, but epdfview eats a crapload of memory and CPU to open a file that size (I just looked, and it showed something like 80MB RAM, and 50%+ of the CPU -- I have an Athlon 2200 with 1 GB RAM).

And lastly, now we just need to figure out a way to electronically transmit a beer to you!... ;-)
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#8 Post by rcrsn51 »

RetroTechGuy wrote:Is there a pdf viewer that has a lower overhead?
Check out this thread.

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#9 Post by RetroTechGuy »

Foxit works well on 5.28 (I picked the "lite"):

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FoxitReader
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