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.
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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!).