[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#556867: cups-pdf: strong kerning errors

[Michael]

Package: cups-pdf
Version: 2.5.0-12
Severity: grave
Tags: patch
Justification: renders package unusable

I do not know, whether this is a CUPS-PDF bug or not, but at least the PDF files created on my computer look horrible (also when printing them!).

See the files free.pdf and google.pdf printed out from Iceweasel (and the three examples I marked in the pngs)


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-6.slh.2-sidux-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
ii  cups                      1.4.1-5        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-client               1.4.1-5        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  ghostscript               8.70~dfsg-2+b1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libc6                     2.10.1-7       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-kde     4:4.3.2-1  KDE 4 printer configuration utilit

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