[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#523269: cups-pdf: Poor output

Dwight Davis sivad_thgiwd at yahoo.ca
Thu Apr 9 04:32:49 UTC 2009


Package: cups-pdf
Version: 2.5.0-1
Severity: important

 Cups-pdf produces rasterized text rather than embedded fonts, because of this text cannot be copy & pasted from pdf.  It also results in a much larger file size.

 Changing the driver to 'raw queue' on the cups-pdf device seems to return cups-pdf to its old behavior.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1-grsec (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
ii  cups                         1.3.9-17    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-client                  1.3.9-17    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  ghostscript                  8.64~dfsg-1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libc6                        2.9-4       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpaper-utils               1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact

cups-pdf recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-pdf suggests:
ii  system-config-printer         1.0.0-4    graphical interface to configure t

-- no debconf information




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