GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309014
Irregular character spacing
Last modified: 2006-10-01 03:53:35 UTC
Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 4 The file http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/milmei/output.pdf gives the output of a document printed using abiword-2.2.8-1.fc4. The character spacing is quite wrong. The font used is Bitstream Vera Serif, but the same problem exists for any other high-quality font I tried (Adobe, Bitstream, ...). This seems to be a problem of gnomeprint as opposed to Abiword, since it occurs also with Gnumeric. The linked PDF is identical to the paper output generated by an HP LaserJet 6MP printer. It does not seem to depend on any installed printer. This problem effectively makes gnome-print based applications unusable.
Double check what version of libgnomeprint you have please. before 2.10.x pdf and ps ignored inter-glyph spacing requests. It was fixed for 2.10 and seemed to work smoothly with abi and gnumeric. If you really do have 2.10 already then please send a sample input file, gnumeric would be fine.
Created attachment 48325 [details] Test Gnumeric file for gnome-print
Created attachment 48326 [details] PDF Output for the Gnumeric test file
FYI: rpm -qf /usr/bin/gnumeric gnumeric-1.4.3-2 ldd /usr/bin/gnumeric ... libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0 (0x00287000) ... /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0 -> libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0.1.0 rpm -qf /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so.0 libgnomeprint22-2.10.3-1 Does it matter if the font is TT or PS?
Created attachment 52527 [details] sample generated from provided file and CVS-2005-Sept-22 This seems reasonable. What am I missing ?
gemi, do you still experience this?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!