[cups.general] Landscape problems with Epson SX125

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On May 22 12:31 A.J.Randall wrote (excerpt):
>> when I try to use the landscape option to print PDF/ps/doc files
>> the result is a close to not readable page. I mean... chars are
>> more larger than high whichever type of char I use.
>> If I use the portrait option everything is OK.
>> Printer: Epson SX125
>> Driver: Epson NX115
>> SO: Linux
>
> I have exactly the same problem, except with an Epson 880 printer.
> In Landscape mode, character height is reduced by 50%, and character
> widths are doubled, so that they overlap each other. The result is
> essentially unreadable.
> I am using Cups 1.4.6, with driver stp-escp2-880.5.2.ppd.gz
> in Open SUSE 11.4 on an x86_64 machine.

Probably an issue since Ghostscript version 9.0, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692356#c13
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As of Ghostscript version 9.0, Ghostscript uses Freetype 2.4.x
as the default font scaler/renderer.

With this change, we added a new switch: -dDisableFAPI=true
to revert to the older behavior, just in case serious
regression happens
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Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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