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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Ghostscript, ps2pdf produces ugly pdf, same problem when printing from kde to pdf | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Gero Mudersbach <geroxp> |
| Component: | Printing | Assignee: | Johannes Meixner <jsmeix> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | QA Contact: | Johannes Meixner <jsmeix> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | werner |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Letter spacing and vertical position is ugly
PDF created with Suse 10.1 fresh install, view with any pdf reader |
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Description
Gero Mudersbach
2006-10-05 15:39:15 UTC
Created attachment 100560 [details]
Letter spacing and vertical position is ugly
Gero, please also provide the PostScript input (i.e. your pdfproblem.ps). I added our Ghostscript maintainer to Cc to have him informed. Broken font?
Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph
is what I'm aware on stderr if I view attachment #100560 [details]
with xpdf.
Gero, please provide us with the info when you have also reported it on the CUPS site instead of letting us search for it by ourselves: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2010 For our information: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:50:18 -0400 From: Helge Blischke <h.blischke@srz.de> Reply-To: Mirror of cups.bugs Newsgroup <cups-bugs@easysw.com> [...] > Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2010 > Attachment: http://www.cups.org/strfiles/2010/gs8.pdf The sample PDF looks good when viewed with Adobe Reader, and it prints OK. Which viewer/printer shows the "jumping" characters? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hmmm ... I see the jumping letters also with acroread ... maybe Helge has some fonts more installed on his system wereas we see the result of a missing font which is emlutated by an other font. Comment #3 and comment #6 indicate that it is an invalid bug report because it seems either the font in the PDF is broken or it is missing at all so that an "ugly" replacement font must be used. Created attachment 101006 [details]
PDF created with Suse 10.1 fresh install, view with any pdf reader
Well, I can (at least with a fresh install of Suse 10.1 and recent updates) reproduce this behaviour: 1. Open Konqueror 2. Go to http://www.cnn.com 3. Print the page with kde's pdf printer (which is nothing else but ps2pdf, I think) 4. Watch the pdf either with kpdf (which is default viewer) or with acroread and you will see the jumping letters If thats the desired result, then let this bug be resolved :) see attachment, created with Suse 10.1. Johannes: It wasn't already active and public accessible on the cups site when I reported this bug, I would have added this information later today. I have investigated the problem further: The problem only occurs, when using kprinter to print the pdf OR generate a postscript-file which will be used to create a pdf. It could have something to do with kprinter itself or with GNU enscript (which is used by kprinter). When using Mozilla-Firefox to print to a cups-pdf printer (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17636.html) this problem does not occur (while firefox uses its own postscript generator). When printing from a kde application or using kprinter we have again the mysterious jumping letters. As soon as I have more info on this I'll get back here. Then it is really invalid regarding Ghostscript and/or the printing system. But it is valid regarding KDE and/or whichever tool such problematic PostScript produces or perhaps one of our fonts is buggy. Gero, please file a new seperated bug report regarding KDE or whichever tool the problematic PostScript produces. Preferably with a description how to reproduce and one example file of such a problematic PostScript as attachment. Created new bug #211235 |