[cups] Missing letters into printed pdf docs

Alex Korobkin korobkin+cups at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 06:35:37 PDT 2018


I had exactly this problem.
It is a bug in cairo, and you either need libcairo 1.15, or backporting
this patch here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/1734092

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:51 AM Philippe Lefèvre <ph.l at libertysurf.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I already sent this question yesterday and as I didn't had any feedback
> and can't see it today into yesterday archives I suppose this is due to
> the fact I was not recorded into the cups user list.
> This is done now and I post it again. Thousand of pardons if I'm wrong.
>
> I'm faced to an issue (encountered for a long time) that I first
> believed it was from the evince software.
>
> When I push a PDF document to my printer via CUPS, some letters (mainly
> low case letters i and l ) are not printed.
> That document is well displayed (with all letters) with evince and other
> PDF like softwares.
>
> This morning I tried to print this same document via another software
> (Master Editor PDF 4) which do not use CUPS and all letters were well
> printed.
> (I don't know what is used by Master Editor PDF to print PDF docs ....
> may be lpr?)
>
> Is this a known issue, how could I fix it?
>
> I'm running Debian Jessie (8.11) up to date
> CUPS version : 1.7.5 (official Debian package version for Jessie)
>
> Thanks for any suggestion
> Philippe
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-Alex


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