[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1476705] Re: [SOLVED] postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)

2015-07-25 Thread James Cloos
Gimp is also, for now, limited to srgb, so anything coming from gimp will work fine with cairo. And, for a postscript printer, jpegs should be converted directly to ps, not via pdf, so that wouldn't matter either. But if you used a workflow which used, say, AdobeRGB as the colour working space,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1476705] Re: [SOLVED] postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)

2015-07-24 Thread James Cloos
pdftocairo is limited by the fact that cairo only handles sRGB. It is therefore unsuitable any time color is important, eg if the pdf uses cmyk or named colors or icc profiles, et cetera. It is fine for printing most web pages, since the browser likely also is limited to sRGB. And for simple

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1476705] Re: postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)

2015-07-22 Thread James Cloos
pdftops and pdftocairo are both from poppler. pdftops is based on the original xpdf code and does not use cairo at all. modern cairo tries to limit the size of tranparency groups to just where it is needed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1357920] Re: Xerox Phaser 8560DN reboots as soon as I bring up the Print requester

2014-08-22 Thread James Cloos
The cups log shows that you configured the printer as an IPP printer. (Or that something did so for you.) Try configuring it as a socket printer (sending the postscript to port 9100). You may need to use the printer’s web interface or control panel to enable port9100 if you have disabled it.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1357920] Re: Xerox Phaser 8560DN reboots as soon as I bring up the Print requester

2014-08-22 Thread James Cloos
Ah. I didn’t intially read every comment. I suspect that the method cups now uses to discover network attached printers is what triggers the crash/reboot. It will ipp-query any it finds which advertise ipp capability in lieu of requiring PPD files to specify the printer’s capabilities. That

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1317599] Re: Evince doesn't show fi-ligatures in a pdf file

2014-05-30 Thread James Cloos
The bug is in fontconfig. Fontconfig added the Gyre font names to the list of suitable replacements for the base PostScript fonts because the shapes and metrics are compatible. What they didn’t notice (until the bug reports started) is that the Gyre authors use the names /f_i, /f_l, /f_f, /f_f_i