Re: Printing PDF's [possibly OT]

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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.

...
> 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!).
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