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Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf?

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On Tue 02 May 2017 at 18:12:18 +0200, Felix Natter wrote:

> does anybody know an alternative for PDF printing (from any application
> that can print) to printer-driver-cups-pdf?
> 
> The output of printer-driver-cups-pdf (in jessie and sid)
> is really bad, see:
> http://www2.inf.fh-brs.de/~fnatte2s/freeplane.pdf
> (might not be viewable by in-browser pdf-viewer, save and open with
> evince/okular to see the broken content: jagged edges, useless font rendering)
> 
> The application I am using (Freeplane 1.6) cannot produce PDFs on its
> own (due to incompatibility with the new SVG rendering).
> 
> There was a bug #847462, but it's resolved and didn't seem to help.
> 
> Any hints?

brian@desktop:~$ file freeplane.pdf 
freeplane.pdf: PostScript document text conforming DSC level 3.0

Do you want to start again? :)

What application produced this PostScript file?

-- 
Brian.

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Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf? Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> - 2017-05-02 18:20 +0200
  Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-02 19:10 +0200
    Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf? Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> - 2017-05-02 20:10 +0200
      Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 20:30 +0200
      Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-02 20:40 +0200
        Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf? Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> - 2017-05-03 11:30 +0200
      Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2017-05-02 21:10 +0200
        Re: Alternative for printer-driver-cups-pdf? Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> - 2017-05-03 11:40 +0200

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