[texhax] microtype: bad printing

Thérèse Bonin furrabi at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 00:46:25 CET 2016


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\pdfpageattr{/Group <</S /Transparency /I true /CS /DeviceRGB>>}

2016-01-28 17:50 GMT-05:00 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
> On 2016-01-28 at 21:58:52 +0100, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>
>  > A *related* problem with blurry text happens when printing
>  > documents containing figures that uses transparency. Then Adobe
>  > Reader will use the ‘Print as image’ feature (which produces a too
>  > low-DPI bitmap) automatically for any pages with transparency,
>  > resulting in low-quality output. But then the *entire page* will be
>  > (slightly) blurry, not just a few lines here and there.
>
> I encountered the same problem about a decade ago when I used pgfplots
> with transparency.  Not only the text tooked different on pages with
> plots, also the color of the company logo was slightly different.
>
> Martin Schröder provided a solution which worked fine.  I only had to
> add one line to the preamble but I don't remember anything and can't
> find the old file.  The only thing I remember is that it injected
> something into the PDF file, with \pdfliteral or something similar.
>
> Maybe Martin remembers...
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard



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