The problem is not a bug in the texttopdf filter and so not a bug to be fixed in the cups package. The bug is in the FreeMono font which is provided by the ttf-freefont package. See e-mail cited below (Hin-Tak was mentor of the Google Summer of Code student who wrote texttopdf, Steve is upstream developer of the FreeMono font).
Moving to ttf-freefont ... ---------- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:20:58 -0800 (PST) From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung at yahoo dot co dot uk> Subject: Bug in FreeMono - it is not monospace (Re: texttopdf has problems under CUPS 1.4.x) To: Steve White <stevan dot white at googlemail dot com> Cc: Till Kamppeter <till dot kamppeter at gmail dot com> Hi Steve, It appears that a change you committed to FreeMono about 2 years ago: Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:39:46 +0000 More fiddling with Greek accents Made quotes "bent" has resulted in FreeMono no longer being monospace - some character spacing becomes wider/narrower. See screenshot attached (before and after) - note in the before part, every glyph lines up vertically, which is no longer the case in the after. I don't quite get the details of your change, but that's what it appears to ftview, one of freetype's viewing tools. This problem probably isn't noticeable in mixed-font usage, but only when using FreeMono as a monospace font to typeset text and make certain assumptions about per-character-width to fit per page. Till (of Ubuntu) passed me one of the bugs from texttopdf which was a written as a Google Summer of Code project under my guidance a year and half ago - I narrowed it down to this particular cvs change and the fact that texttopdf needs on FreeMono when typesetting in utf-8 locale, and FreeMono has changed since the project completed. I believe at the moment, the bug happens because the code assumes one width for spacing and another for fitting with a page, although I haven't found out where that assumptions are yet. I hope you have some idea about this anomaly, and can provide a fix soon. Cheers, Hin-Tak ** Package changed: cups (Ubuntu) => ttf-freefont (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: ttf-freefont (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => High -- Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
