[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#556867: cups-pdf: strong kerning errors

[Volker Behr]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 01:05 +0100, Michael wrote:
> Package: cups-pdf
> Version: 2.5.0-12
> Severity: grave
> Tags: patch
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I do not know, whether this is a CUPS-PDF bug or not, but at least the PDF files created on my computer look horrible (also when printing them!).
> 
> See the files free.pdf and google.pdf printed out from Iceweasel (and the three examples I marked in the pngs)
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-6.slh.2-sidux-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
> ii  cups                      1.4.1-5        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
> ii  cups-client               1.4.1-5        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
> ii  ghostscript               8.70~dfsg-2+b1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
> ii  libc6                     2.10.1-7       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libpaper-utils            1.1.23+nmu1    library for handling paper charact
> 
> cups-pdf recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages cups-pdf suggests:
> ii  system-config-printer-kde     4:4.3.2-1  KDE 4 printer configuration utilit
> 
> -- no debconf information

I viewed the two examples with evince, gv and acroread and failed to see
any issues (the spots marked in the pngs look 1:1 the same as in the PDF
on my screen) - my system is not Debian, so it might still be an issue
with Debian's viewers but the PDF themselves seem absolutely fine to me.

Regards,
Volker