On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 01:46:48AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: >On Sat 24 Oct 2015 at 23:55:37 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:04:27AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: >> >On Mon 17 Jun 2013 at 16:29:08 +0800, 王晓林 wrote: >> > >> >> grep 'DefaultResolution' /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd >> >> >> >> gives: >> >> >> >> *DefaultResolution: 300dpi >> > >> >You should find that raising this value gives you PDFs with acceptable >> >quality whebn the cost factor is 66. >> >> I'm seeing this bug too (I think), but I don't even have a file >> /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd. The only file on my system matching PDF.ppd is >> /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/Generic-PDF_Printer-PDF.ppd , and: > >You would only have /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd if you had cups-pdf installed. > >> $ grep DefaultResolution >> /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/Generic-PDF_Printer-PDF.ppd >> *DefaultResolution: 600dpi >> >> Any suggestions? Dumping files to pdf and printing on the server was >> my workaround for #769058, but this bug is getting in the way of that. >> >> http://www.einval.com/~steve/tmp/wibble.pdf >> >> is not great. :-( > >Viewed with mupdf, xpdf and evince it's almost acceptable if you squint >at it. Viewed with Iceweasel it is awful. The PDF has been created by >cairo 1.9.5 so I guess you have printed to file from a GTK application >like Iceweasel. CUPS is not involved in this process.
ACK. Apologies for the noise, this came from iceweasel. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.
