[Bug 211235] New: Bad postscript creation from kprinter concludes in ugly pdf
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 Summary: Bad postscript creation from kprinter concludes in ugly pdf Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Linux 10.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: geroxp@web.de QAContact: kde-maintainers@suse.de Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Konqueror 2. Go to http://www.cnn.com 3. Print the page with kde's pdf printer (which is nothing else but ps2pdf, I think) 4. Watch the pdf either with kpdf (which is default viewer) or with acroread and you will see the jumping letters The problem only occurs, when using kprinter to print the pdf OR generate a postscript-file which will be used to create a pdf. It could have something to do with kprinter itself or with GNU enscript (which is used by kprinter). When using Mozilla-Firefox to print to a cups-pdf printer (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17636.html) this problem does not occur (while firefox uses its own postscript generator). When printing from a kde application or using kprinter we have again the mysterious jumping letters. See also bug #210256 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 ------- Comment #1 from geroxp@web.de 2006-10-10 01:09 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=101083) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=101083&action=view) Result of kprinter pdf generation (when viewing with xpdf look at console output) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 cthiel@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |kde-maintainers@suse.de |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 ------- Comment #2 from geroxp@web.de 2006-10-10 06:55 MST ------- It may has something to do with Qt and its qpsprinter class which creates postscript files. I am using version 3.x and there are several bugs fixed in version 4.x which could have something to do with this problem. At the moment I cannot test it with Qt 4. The corresponding bugs I found in Trolltechs tasktracker are: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=109752 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=104150 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 ------- Comment #3 from geroxp@web.de 2006-10-10 07:30 MST ------- It's somehow a little better without font-embedding set in qt: Fire up "/usr/lib/qt3/bin/qtconfig", disable font embedding (printer tab) and try again. (or edit "~/.qt/qtrc" with your favorite editor and change "embedFonts" value in the "General" section to false.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 wstephenson@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mfabian@novell.com ------- Comment #4 from wstephenson@novell.com 2006-10-12 04:53 MST ------- Mike, can you tell me why the fonts would 'jump' like this? I can't reproduce with or without font embedding? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 ------- Comment #5 from geroxp@web.de 2006-10-12 06:18 MST ------- Will, the postscript file (which is used to create the pdf) from qt differs from the one that Firefox produces. If you look at the PDF I have attached to this bug you can notice that the embedded fonts have no name. Unless I'm very much mistaken according to Adobe the fonts must have a name in the following manner: 6 Letters + (+) + Fontname (example: HWNDJR+ArialMT) Qt produces postscript without these naming conventions. This could either be a bug in qpsprinter.cpp or it has something to do with a missing font substitution. Perhaps this helps... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 ------- Comment #6 from mfabian@novell.com 2006-10-12 06:33 MST ------- Will> I can't reproduce with or without font embedding? I can reproduce it (with font embedding). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 ------- Comment #7 from geroxp@web.de 2006-10-14 03:59 MST ------- I had a chance to test it with qt-4.1.4 and had the same results. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 mfabian@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|mfabian@novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211235 wstephenson@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kde-maintainers@suse.de |wstephenson@novell.com Component|KDE |KDE Product|SUSE Linux 10.1 |openSUSE 10.3 Version|Final |Alpha 1 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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