13 Jul
2021
13 Jul
'21
6:11 p.m.
On Tuesday 13 July 2021 12:33:10 pm Edward wrote:
Since installing Debian, I've had some issues
printing PDF's, in that
the resulting printout doesn't look exactly like the PDF. This could be
due to the fonts installed with Debian, where they are possibly not the
same or ideal fonts for PDF's.
In addition to KPDF (which installed with TDE), I tried:
* KGhostView
* evince
* qpdfview
* Okular
* GIMP
* LibreOffice Draw
* Firefox
None of these printed the PDF as expected. So I will be uninstalling all
of the above, except for KPDF (so as not to cause any potential issues
with TDE), LibreOffice Draw and Firefox.
I also have both the Vivaldi (stable and Snapshot) and Chromium web
browsers installed. Chromium does not offer an option to open a file.
...
Vivaldi does and in its print dialog, there is an
option 'Print as
image'. I selected this and the PDF printed perfectly.
Sounds like a CUPS fuck up, maybe see if your printer got dropped (not that
you'll ever get it back if CUPS dropped it)? Other than that I don't have
any solution.*
Best,
Michael
* Okay, a horribly sucky one :( . Find a Linux OS version that still prints
correctly and install that in a VM (and never update it!).