Public bug reported:
My Epson Stylus D88 printer normally produces excellent prints (although
borderless doesn't work). However, when printing rotated PostScript
files the output looks horrible - something like 72 dpi without
antialiasing or proper grey tones.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Print any text document to file.ps
2. psnup -s0.65 -2 file.ps book.ps
3. Print file.ps using Evince or whatever: rendering looks fine on Evince but
definetly not on paper
Using other utils than psnup doesn't matter. I don't really have
experience with PostScript or Linux printing in general so I don't
really know if it's the printer driver (Gutenprint) causing this or
what.
My current workaround is to convert the rotated PostScript file to ~300 dpi
raster images using ImageMagick and convert them back to a PostScript file:
1. convert -density 300x300 book.ps book.png
2. rename book-?.png to book-01.png, book-02.png etc.
3. convert book-*.png book-raster.ps
The workaround takes ages and hundreds of megabytes to complete, though.
I've encountered this bug in both dapper and edgy.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
--
Printer output quality is horrible when using rotated PostScript files
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70661
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
