hello Brian, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > On Tue 02 May 2017 at 18:12:18 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > >> does anybody know an alternative for PDF printing (from any application >> that can print) to printer-driver-cups-pdf? >> >> The output of printer-driver-cups-pdf (in jessie and sid) >> is really bad, see: >> http://www2.inf.fh-brs.de/~fnatte2s/freeplane.pdf >> (might not be viewable by in-browser pdf-viewer, save and open with >> evince/okular to see the broken content: jagged edges, useless font >> rendering) >> >> The application I am using (Freeplane 1.6) cannot produce PDFs on its >> own (due to incompatibility with the new SVG rendering). >> >> There was a bug #847462, but it's resolved and didn't seem to help. >> >> Any hints? > > brian@desktop:~$ file freeplane.pdf > freeplane.pdf: PostScript document text conforming DSC level 3.0 > > Do you want to start again? :)
I tried renaming the file to freeplane.ps, and get the same result when viewing with evince ;-) > What application produced this PostScript file? Freeplane, a java mind map editor. I strongly assume that this is the built-in java printing functionality. A screenshot of the printing dialog is attached. Thanks and Best Regards, -- Felix Natter
