Bug#712015: cups-filters: cups-pdf produces ugly pdfs through its pixelated font

[James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "TK" == Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> writes:

TK> This is only true if cups-filters is using the Poppler pdftops utility,
TK> if Ghostscript is used (and this is the default in Ubuntu and also
TK> upstream), level 3 PostScript is generated if the PPD requests it.

Ghostscript only has its ps2write output device; they have not written a
ps3write device; it never generates Level3.

Xpdf’s pdftops(1) and poppler’s pdftops(1) (and, I suppose, ick☺, acro)
are the only options if one want to generate level3.

CID-keyed fonts and shadings are probably the most significant level3-only
features in this context.

-JimC
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