Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering

[Richard Gaskin]

Sean Cole wrote:
> I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs. No
> matter which font or style I use I get occasional anomalies where
> characters from words get placed over each other like a kerning issue gone
> mental.
> 
> Bad rendering:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/v09vacw8x3873qh/Screenshot%202020-12-04%20at%2005.53.47.png?dl=0
> 
> Good rendering:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ehbdofm3nusgzyh/Screenshot%202020-12-04%20at%2005.54.08.png?dl=0
> 
> It's very random. Sometimes it's ok. the next report will come out bad.
> There's no real pattern I can identify. I've been going at it for a few
> days trying different font types and styles but they are all very hit and
> miss. I can't work out if it is Cairo, Cups or something else. From the
> print card dialogue I get the same issue. I'm so tired and frustrated from
> trying to sort it out. Anyone have a fix/workaround/suggestion?

It's been a while since I've seen that, but when I did it was with an 
older stack brought forward through many versions to v9.

IIRC I replaced the fields that showed the issue one by one until the 
problem went away.

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