[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-07-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
Romeo, your printer is not affected by this bug, this bug treats mostly PostScript printers and some others (with driver foo2zjs or proprietary driver). If you have used the fully automatic printer setup of Ubuntu to set up your printer, you are not affected by this bug and you are observing anoth

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-07-25 Thread Romeo Dragnea
Hello evryone, I still have this issue with a Cannon BJC 210, LPT printer. The text on the printed paper looks exactly as the scaned one attached by Anthony Hertzler on 2012-05-02: #8. I am using the default ubuntu font ... What sould I do? Thanks in advance for any help. -- You received

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-30 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package cups-filters - 1.0.18-0ubuntu0.1 --- cups-filters (1.0.18-0ubuntu0.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low [ Till Kamppeter ] * New upstream release - pdftops: Allow selection whether Ghostscript or Poppler is used at runtime, setting the "pd

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-29 Thread Anthony Hertzler
Thank you, the changes seem to have solved the problem for me now as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-29 Thread Paweł
I tested your changes - I have a correct printing now without workaround. Thank you, Till. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-23 Thread Olivier Subilia
Thank you for the explanation. Olivier Subilia -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's To manage notifications abo

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-23 Thread Till Kamppeter
The cupsRasterInterpretPPD() of the CUPS image library understands the PostScript code in the PPD. So the selected setting of an option contains the code to set the output resolution to 600 dpi the function finds this, regardless of the name of the option and the name of the setting, for example al

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-23 Thread Olivier Subilia
Not yet had the time to check, sorry (you know, it's all about this crazy little thing called work). But I'll do it ASAP. @ Till: just to be sure to have understood correctly. When you write in the diff: - pdftops: Start determining the printing resolution with cupsRasterInterpret

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-22 Thread Tijn Boissevain
Found this thread while my Brother DCP-9055CDN has the same problem. Just updated to cups-filters 1.0.18 (proposed) and it prints fine now! Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much. I have marked the bug as verified now. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-19 Thread Michael McDonald
Added precise-proposed as a software source and updated system. Printed from PDF files to Brother HL-3040CN printer - resolution now as expected. Great result. Thanks. Will there be advice of when patch is accepted into precise libraries? Michael -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-18 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/precise-proposed/cups-filters -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's To manage notific

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-18 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Anthony, or anyone else affected, Accepted cups-filters into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in ad

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-17 Thread Josep Borrajo
Hello Till, I'm sorry if my English is not as good as I would. I had the same problem with an Brother HL-4150CDN with 12.04 version but I've solved (provisional) by changing the driver (HL-4150CDN for CUPS) for another (HL-4050-CDN) that had a problem in previous versions (with the same printer) b

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
To the SRU team: The relevant changes for the fix are in the file filter/pdftops.c. The file in the debdiff looks very cluttered as there are many lines where only white space (indentation) changed. Attached to this comment is a cleaner diff for this file with white space changes ignored (diff -b),

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have uploaded a fixed cups-filters package to precise-proposed now. Please test the package as soon as it gets available for download and give feedback here. This is required to make the new package an official update for Precise. Another comment with testing instructions will get posted here. W

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-16 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package cups-filters - 1.0.18-1 --- cups-filters (1.0.18-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release - pdftops: Allow selection whether Ghostscript or Poppler is used at runtime, setting the "pdftops-renderer" option to "gs" or "pdfto

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-09 Thread Brock Riedell
Confirming identical behaviour with a Brother MFC-J6710DW. It printed perfectly under Oneric, but reverts to mostly but not uniformly low- resolution after a clean Precise install. Pawel's workaround edit of the PPD file has temporally solved the issue. -- You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
Pawel, this resolution entry is used if Ghostscript has to turn graphical content of the PDF into a bitmap if PostScript does not support this type of graphical content, especially transparency. A bitmap always needs a resolution, also if the source data is entirely vector graphics. If the resoluti

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-08 Thread Paweł
Your solution to setup 300dpi in case there is no "Resolution" option could be not the best one - users with such PPD files will be not able to print in different resolution. Is it possible to not setup resolution at all if there is no "Resolution" option? -- You received this bug notification be

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have found out what is happening here: The pdftops filter is not able to find out what the printing resolution for this job is, due to no "Resolution" option in the PPD and also no PostScript commands for setting the device resolution in any other options in the PPD. This leads to the wrong assum

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's To ma

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-07 Thread JBENNET
Similar problem with my Brother HL-4150CDN, I posted an unsuccesful askubuntu question here http://askubuntu.com/questions/132353/brother- hl-4150cdn-prints-text-with-wrong-resolution-on-ubuntu-12-04-where-can ; I can confirm that some fonts actually print with 100 dpi resolution. pdftops must b

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-07 Thread Michael McDonald
I have similar problems with my Brother HL3040CN printer. Took a Libre Office document and exported as pdf. Printing pdf file from evince generates text at about 100dpi. Printing to HP F2180 is OK. Printing direct from Libre Office to Brother HL3040CN was OK. -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-06 Thread Olivier Subilia
That workaround worked also for me. Using "Resolution" instead of "BRResolution" does the job properly. So now, who doesn't understand who ? Is it a problem of Cups ? of the Brother Driver (same before and after upgrade to Precise) ? Best regards Olivier Subilia -- You received this bug notif

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-04 Thread Anthony Hertzler
That workaround worked for me, too, printing to a Brother MFC-J615W. It would be even cooler if I wasn't too much of a newbie to understand *why* it worked. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-04 Thread Paweł
I had the same behaviour - printing from pdf files was at 100 dpi. In the cups error.log there was a "Using image rendering resolution 100 dpi" information. I found on pdftops sources that 2012-04-10 in change #6926 there was a change for setting a resolution setup in ppd options ('Resolution', 'De

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Hertzler
Sorry, forgot to add the cups-pdf output file. Here it is. ** Attachment added: "Output of original file printed with cups-pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/984082/+attachment/3126219/+files/1204-poster-3.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Hertzler
In contrast Olivier's experience, in my case cups-pdf is also producing bad output. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printin

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Hertzler
Okay, I have added debug log data for a job printed from Evince. Short on time, but I verified that Evince and Firefox are sending good data to cups when the printouts look bad. I've attached examples from Evince of an original PDF, the ~/printout file retrieved from the spool, and the output of c

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-02 Thread Olivier Subilia
Capture data: a) openoffice. Stop printer and print text. Output document in Cups queue is perfect (pdf data). When I restart the printer, the document is printed awfully. The problem seems to come with cups and not with openoffice b) cups-pdf. output document in ~/PDF is perfect. Printing this

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-01 Thread Hamdy
Hi, I was trying to pritnt a pdf file and I got same bad results in case of using both "Document viewer" & "Google chrome" I attached the error log resulting from following instructions in section 1. By following the instructions in section 2 I always get bad printed results in all cases althou

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-01 Thread Till Kamppeter
Can everyone with the problem 1. Follow the instructions of the sections "CUPS error_log" and "Capturing print job data" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems for each application which shows the problem? 2. install the cups-pdf package and print the same files from the dame appli

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-05-01 Thread Jamie Strandboge
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[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-04-30 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-04-30 Thread Olivier Subilia
Same (type of) problem for me. I had a Brother MFC-9465CDN with Brother's drivers installed. Everything perfect in Oneiric. Since upgrade (and also fresh reinstall from scratch) to Precise, I get awfull pixelized printing from (particulary): - openoffice - konqueror - kate/kwrite Strange thing: i

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-04-19 Thread Anthony Hertzler
Since posting the bug I have started getting the same problem when printing from Firefox and Openoffice, so it's clearly not a problem with evince. It is, however, a big problem here on my Dell Latitude D620 to not be able to print reliably. The printer I'm using is a Brother MFC- J615W with Brothe

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Package changed: evince (Ubuntu) => cups (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082 Title: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's To manage notification

[Bug 984082] Re: Evince produces low-res, pixelated output when printing PDF's

2012-04-17 Thread Anthony Hertzler
** Attachment added: "This is a 1200 dpi scan of the fonts printed from a pdf from evince" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984082/+attachment/3084264/+files/Example_Print.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/