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

[Volker Behr]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 17:31 +0100, Dirk Vogt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > (the spots marked in the pngs look 1:1 the same as in the PDF on my screen)
> 
> I think that the pngs and pdf look the same IS the problem, and by the
> way logical, as the pngs are screen shots of the PDF viewer's output.
> 
> In  the PDFs and PNGs, a can see obvious problems concerning the kerning
> of the font:
>  
> example:
> 
> google.png: the first 'o' is way to near to the 'g' of google. Also
> between the 'g' and the 'l' in the word google is not enough space. 
> 

Ok, I checked that again - with Firefox (or any related browser) I get
exactly the kerning errors shown. With Opera the page looks just fine. I
remember in the past several issues with PostScript-Code generated by
Firefox.

This issue cannot be fixed by CUPS-PDF, since probably it is some
trouble with the original PostScript-Code (generated by Firefox). In
case it is an issue of the processing of this PS-code that has to be
fixed by GhostScript which is the utility CUPS-PDF employs internally to
convert PS to PDF.

Regards,
Volker