On Tue, 13 Jul 2021, 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.
I haven't tested printing PDF from TDE yet. Whenever I had trouble in the past with PDF (both viewing and printing) I needed to install the MS truetype fonts. In openSUSE there is a package for that:
fetchmsttfonts | Helper package to run the fetchmsttfonts script
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.
Why do you think they may cause an issue with TDE? I have tons of programs installed from outside TDE including from other desktop environments. I believe it is the advantage in Linux that everything is modular and you can have different things running or installed at the same time (unless there are file conflicts, but the installer at least in openSUSE warns you about it).
Gianluca
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.
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