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  1. Bug #150187
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Comment 65 for bug 150187

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Mark Jovalekic (m-jovalekic) wrote : Re: [gutsy] [regression] Evince has very bad quality when printing pdf files.

I must admit that I can't reproduce the bug, but I remember a similar problem I had years ago.
It seems that the printing/display problems have something to do with documents, which were created with some sort of TeX.
You must know that font-handling (embedding) is often a cause for problems. There are T1 (Type 1 = good, don't confuse it with T1 font encoding in your LaTeX source ;-) and T3 fonts. T3 are only the ugly bitmap fonts - I have seen (Alt + Enter in evince; than fonts dialog) that some of the PDFs aren't properly created.

So please check your TeX/LaTeX/LyX-setup (I have installed texlive-fonts-recommended, -extra, -font-utils, and from universe the packages cm-super and lmodern) and your font settings in your sources / LyX-setup.

Now the question is why do acroread, evince, kpdf show different output? Perhaps it is how they handle problems with fonts. I don't know, but it could be a possibility.