Printing PDF produces barely visible text

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

When printing a PDF document (generated with latex) the text is barely visible. On close inspection one sees that the text was printed but with very toner. I am using a Samsung ML-1630 monochrome laser printer, it is working with the SPLIX driver.

The problem is related to PDF as printing a WebPage with Epiphany is working. It also shows that there is enough toner. I was recompiling the maverick package of splix and installing it to see if there is a difference but there was not. I assume it is an issue with the pdftoraster-poppler converter itself.

Forcing to use pdftoraster by changing the preference in pdftoraster.cons is fixing the problem for me.

Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

cups:
  Installed: 1.4.6-5
  Candidate: 1.4.6-5
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.6-5 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
splix:
  Installed: 2.0.0+20110219-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.0+20110219-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0+20110219-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the stable release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

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