On 13 Dec 2005, at 17:51, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
1) Ghostscript versions that you use?
dpkg -l gs-esp
11:19 [0|16]% dpkg -l gs-esp
[snip]
ii gs-esp 7.07.1-9 The Ghostscript PostScript
interpreter - ESP ver
2) DPI setting of your cups-pdf printer in CUPS preferences?
DPI is set to 1200 default in the PPD.
Note that CUPS-PDF is completely dependant [on]
Ghostscript for the printing quality.
This might be a ghostscript problem then, since the text is being
garbled - as in encrypted, not drawn badly. For example, your message
to me started with the text:
severity 343145 important
thanks
while on the PDF version printed via CUPS-PDF, the starting text was:
!"#"$%'()*)+*,(%-./$&01&
&2013!
So by "garbled" I don't mean "printed unclearly", I mean "replaced with
meaningless rubbish" or perhaps even "encrypted".
The layout is great - almost pixel for pixel, but the actual glyphs
that make up the "text" are replaced with other symbols. In fact,
having a closer look at the text, it looks almost like a
transliteration error:
Note that CUPS-PDF is completely dependant upon the DPI resolution
configured in CUPS via the printer management interface and upon
Ghostscript for the printing quality.
is replaced with:
W/&"(&20&(UV@>[EMAIL PROTECTED](%!(A/-.8"&"8'(D"."1D01&(C./1(&2"([EMAIL
PROTECTED]($"!/8C&%/1
A/1E%BC$"D(%1(UV@>(#%0(&2"(.$%1&"$(-010B"-"1&(%1&"$E0A"(01D(C./1
R2/!&!A$%.&(E/$(&2"(.$%1&%1B(XC08%&'G(
If - as you already suggested - this is something I should take up with
the gs-esp maintainer, please let me know. Otherwise I can try to
capture the PostScript being sent from my computer to CUPS, in order to
further test the CUPS-PDF printer - would it be enough to "Stop" the
printer and simply snarf the files from the CUPS spool?
Alex Satrapa
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