Bug 469325

Summary:	Default font is too heavy in texttopaps
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component:	paps	Assignee:	Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	i18n-bugs, tagoh
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Description Tim Waugh 2008-10-31 10:16:35 UTC

Description of problem:
When using texttopaps as the CUPS text/plain filter, text comes out much bolder than with the CUPS texttops filter.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
paps-0.6.8-6.fc9

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo abcde | /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops 1 x '' 1 '' > cups.ps
2. echo abcde | /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopaps 1 x '' 1 '' > paps.ps
3. evince cups.ps & evince paps.ps
  
Actual results:
paps.ps is much heavier than cups.ps.

Expected results:
Comparable output.

Additional info:
This has come up frequently on the cups mailing list since we switched to texttopaps as the text/plain filter.

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2008-10-31 10:38:23 UTC

So which font would you prefer for default?

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2008-10-31 11:01:06 UTC

"Courier" (which fontconfig maps to Nimbus Mono L) looks better I think.  It's closer in appearance to the font CUPS provides.

I don't mind which font paps uses by default, but it would be nice for 'texttopaps' (i.e. in CUPS mode) to use "Courier".

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2008-11-03 10:58:33 UTC

Actually it would be brilliant to be able to use the Postscript Type 1 font in /usr/share/cups/fonts/Courier* for this, but I'm not sure what is needed to make that happen.

Obviously it won't have a complete UTF-8 glyph set, but with correct fontconfig configuration I expect it will fall back to Nimbus Mono L/Liberation Mono for those glyphs.

Comment 4 Akira TAGOH 2008-11-07 13:55:05 UTC

testing package available on http://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/tests/469325/

"Courier" as the font name is used for texttopaps in this testing package.

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2008-11-14 14:59:28 UTC

Yes, works fine in that package.

Comment 6 Akira TAGOH 2008-11-17 10:10:28 UTC

Fixed in paps-0.6.8-8.fc{8,9,10,11}.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-11-17 10:12:39 UTC

paps-0.6.8-8.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/paps-0.6.8-8.fc10

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-11-17 10:13:16 UTC

paps-0.6.8-8.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/paps-0.6.8-8.fc9

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-11-17 10:13:57 UTC

paps-0.6.8-8.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/paps-0.6.8-8.fc8

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-11-19 14:46:51 UTC

paps-0.6.8-8.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-11-19 14:47:07 UTC

paps-0.6.8-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-11-22 16:58:13 UTC

paps-0.6.8-8.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.