Bug 429550 – net-print/cups-pdf-3.0_beta1 produces poor quality output after upgrade to >=net-print/cups-1.6

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Chris Smith 2012-08-02 17:56:20 UTC]

Quality of PDF's created by cups-pdf greatly sufferes under cups-1.6.x and cups-filters.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
see attached

[Comment 1 Chris Smith 2012-08-02 17:58:04 UTC]

Created attachment 320100 [details]
PDF created with "print to file"

[Comment 2 Chris Smith 2012-08-02 17:58:40 UTC]

Created attachment 320102 [details]
PDF created using cups-pdf

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-08-02 18:14:37 UTC]

1. Post output of `emerge --info`
2. You didn't mention the version of cups-pdf you tested. And as a result, you didn't mention if the problem is still present in ~arch version, 3.0_beta1

[Comment 4 Chris Smith 2012-08-02 18:39:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 1. Post output of `emerge --info`
> 2. You didn't mention the version of cups-pdf you tested. And as a result,
> you didn't mention if the problem is still present in ~arch version,
> 3.0_beta1

Sorry - problem exists in both the beta and the stable version. First noticed it when using the beta and then downgraded with same results.

[Comment 5 Chris Smith 2012-08-02 18:40:00 UTC]

emerge --info
Portage 2.2.0_alpha120 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.5.0-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.5.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2600K_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.12
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.8-r3
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.27
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.10.5
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.2
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22.90
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.5 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r2
Repositories: gentoo desktop server mythtv
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ http://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en_US en"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/desktop /usr/local/portage/server /usr/local/mythtv_portage/Gentoo"
SYNC="rsync://rsync11.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel 2017-01-28 23:04:25 UTC]

Please test if this is still the case after updating cups-pdf to version 3.0.0.

[Comment 7 Andreas K. Hüttel 2017-02-19 17:58:24 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #6)
> Please test if this is still the case after updating cups-pdf to version
> 3.0.0.