Current -git looking fine.. except for printing

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Jul 24 14:24:46 PDT 2014


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:10:48AM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 25 July 2014 00:04, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> The notes work, and max depth etc. But yeah, all the profile text
> >> (which includes pressure info, temperature, dive computer name etc) is
> >> completely unreadable. It's just noise.
> >
> > Btw, what platform had the "thick lines" issue? Because maybe the
> > pixmap workaround could be done on just that platform.
> >
> > I went back to an older version of subsurface, and the prints back
> > then looked fine on my setup (in fact, on the random version from
> > early June that I tested, it was the notes that looked bad, presumably
> > due to some font selection issue).
> >
> > I didn't follow the "thick lines" discussion, though, so I don't know
> > what triggered it. Was it Windows-specific, perhaps?
> >
> 
> just reverted 94bcd262 (Tomaz' profile to bitmap / PDF patch) and the
> profile lines look OK in vector on Win7, so it's not a Windows issue.

I was able to reproduce it on Linux / Fedora 

> but with or without the revert, text in the profile is quite small in general.
> i can solve the pixeleted issue right now, but the font size needs to
> be increased.
> i think Dirk originally made this change. rule of thumb should be that
> at 100% view size for A4 all text should be visible IMHO.

Basically it needs some tuning. I'm fine doing that after Beta 3.

Let's try and fix it if we can.

/D


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