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Bug 739186 - text exported to PDF is tiny
text exported to PDF is tiny
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 681895
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.8.10
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
: 739582 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-10-25 22:24 UTC by Joe Harrington
Modified: 2015-01-08 22:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Gimp file (1.18 MB, image/x-xcf)
2014-10-25 22:24 UTC, Joe Harrington 		Details
PDF file with tiny fonts (725.66 KB, application/pdf)
2014-10-25 22:25 UTC, Joe Harrington 		Details
JPEG file that looks right (1.09 MB, image/jpeg)
2014-10-25 22:26 UTC, Joe Harrington 		Details

Description Joe Harrington 2014-10-25 22:24:41 UTC 
Created attachment 289326 [details]
Gimp file

I made the attached file, including several images and three text boxes.  When exported to JPEG, it looks as it does in GIMP.  However, in PDF the text is tiny,  a fraction of its size in GIMP/JPEG.  I used the text tool from the toolbox window to make the text.  I copied the images by reading a PDF file, selecting a few rectangles, and pasting them into a new document with a white background.  It is a grayscale document.

I searched and found a few people online describing the same problem, but not many.  Those posts were from 2012, and none suggested workarounds that worked.

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on a ThinkPad.

Thanks,

--jh--
Comment 1 Joe Harrington 2014-10-25 22:25:38 UTC 
Created attachment 289327 [details]
PDF file with tiny fonts
Comment 2 Joe Harrington 2014-10-25 22:26:25 UTC 
Created attachment 289328 [details]
JPEG file that looks right
Comment 3 Joe Harrington 2014-10-25 22:31:37 UTC 
I set the font size unit to pt (default units were pix).  Changing the units back and re-saving did the same as before.  The doc is 300 DPI, US letter size.  I tried Sans and Times New Roman fonts, same result.

--jh--
Comment 4 Joe Harrington 2014-10-25 22:39:40 UTC 
The text appears to shrink to about 1/4 its original size, which also seems to be the pix to pt size ratio, but that maybe coincidence, as making new text in the document specifying a pix size doesn't behave differently (it still shrinks on PDF export).

--jh--
Comment 5 Michael Schumacher 2014-10-28 16:24:26 UTC 
The 42px / 10pt text turns out to be 3.2pt in the PDF.
Comment 6 Michael Schumacher 2014-10-28 16:28:16 UTC 
Bug 681895 could be related, bug 708207 too.
Comment 7 Michael Schumacher 2014-12-26 14:18:23 UTC 
*** Bug 739582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Michael Schumacher 2014-12-31 18:28:07 UTC 
Joe, do you think this could be the same as bug 681895?
Comment 9 Joe Harrington 2015-01-08 04:15:45 UTC 
Yes, very likely.  Fix that one and we'll see! ;-)

--jh--
Comment 10 Michael Natterer 2015-01-08 22:52:23 UTC 
We don't need two bugs about broken PDF text export.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 681895 ***