Comment 9 for bug 150187

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In , Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150187

"Evince prints every pdf I send, with very bad quality, and printing is very slow. Kpdf does not suffer of this problem, printing is high quality and fast. Looks like evince is rendering pdf to a very low quality image. I also tried printing some text from gedit, and it is of perfect quality too.
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After discovering that I had the same problem with another printer, I tried with kpdf, and printing is perfect. Evince has very bad quality when printing pdfs.
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It seems that I spoke too early. I printed again one page via cups-pdf, both from evince and from kpdf. I attach the results of both. The one printed via evince occupies much more disk space, and if you zoom onto that you'll notice these are bitmaps.
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http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9860625/evince-print.pdf
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http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9860627/kpdf-print.pdf
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