[Bug 150187] Re: [gutsy] [regression] Evince has very bad quality when printing pdf files.

[Mark Jovalekic]

@Benjamin Redelings:
I can reproduce it on gutsy.
I have noticed that your PDF includes T1 and T3 fonts. After printing into a 
new PDF (or preview) the file becomes unusable - all fonts are gone (and the 
filesize gets 1,2 MiB).

Swistak gave me an idea: I create a perfect PDF with pdflatex with
embedded T1 fonts. The file is shown in evince in good quality. When I
print into a new PDF - the fonts are changed to T1C Cairo-fonts. The
original ones are lost. The quality is still okay, but here we definitly
see that there are some font handling problems.

What do you think?

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[Bug 150187] Re: [gutsy] [regression] Evince has very bad quality when printing pdf files.

[Mark Jovalekic]

I must admit that I can't reproduce the bug, but I remember a similar problem I 
had years ago.
It seems that the printing/display problems have something to do with 
documents, which were created with some sort of TeX.
You must know that font-handling (embedding) is often a cause for problems. 
There are T1 (Type 1 = good, don't confuse it with T1 font encoding in your 
LaTeX source ;-) and T3 fonts. T3 are only the ugly bitmap fonts - I have seen 
(Alt + Enter in evince; than fonts dialog) that some of the PDFs aren't 
properly created.

So please check your TeX/LaTeX/LyX-setup (I have installed texlive-
fonts-recommended, -extra, -font-utils, and from universe the packages
cm-super and lmodern) and your font settings in your sources / LyX-
setup.

Now the question is why do acroread, evince, kpdf show different output?
Perhaps it is how they handle problems with fonts. I don't know, but it
could be a possibility.

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