John Beale wrote: > > I generated this PDF with Scribus: > > http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/problem.pdf > > and although it opens fine on Adobe Reader, whenever I try to print it > > result is half a page of pixelated content, along with a perfect half... > > http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/print_result.png
just FWIW, when I tried printing page one of "problem.pdf" from Acrobat 7 (WinXP) on my 600 dpi laserprinter, the resolution was "reasonable", that is to say the small text was clearly legible. Not perfect, there was slight fringing on edges as you expect from a JPEG file at medium quality. However page one in the PNG example above is (I would estimate) about 8 times lower in actual resolution and the small text is in no way visible, since individual pixels are the size of entire letters. With this kind of resolution loss I could not describe it as anything but a bug. I would expect only a factor of two loss even for the worst-case scaling errors in the worst algorithm, and of course it should be much less. I don't know exactly where the bug is, though.
