Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > On Tue 02 May 2017 at 20:04:55 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > >> hello Brian, > > Hello Felix.
hi 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 ;-) > > Which you would. Renaming the file does not alter its contents. The > point is that freeplane file has not been produced by cups-pdf. It is > not (as you assert) the output of printer-driver-cups-pdf. > >> > 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. > > If freeplane produced the PostScript file it is highly unlikely any > post-processing of it would produce any better output. Makes sense, yes. On the other hand, Freeplane's print preview looks just fine. > The print dialog is not quite gtkprint (see the one for Firefox or > Evince). Whatever it is doing, it does not appear to be producing a PDF > with the PDF printer it displays. (Producing a PDF is the raison d'être > for cups-pdf). Yes, if I do not select [x] Print to File, no output is produced. So it looks like the openjdk print dialog is broken, or wrongly used. The print preview in Freeplane looks fine, though. So I will have a look at the source code and maybe work with the openjdk people on fixing this. Many Thanks and Best Regards, -- Felix Natter
