pdf2svg makes lines too thick

[wagle@…]

pdf2svg is using the wrong call to poppler..

lines now come out with a thickness of 1 instead of 0.398. according to the irc channel:

<wagle> if pdf2svg uses poppler, and now draws lines too thick compared to 6-9 months ago, is poppler the one at fault?  The lines used to be 0.398 thick, are now 1
<adrianj> wagle: pdf2svg should be calling poppler_page_render_for_printing() instead of poppler_page_render(). The former is for use with cairo vector surfaces. The latter for image surfaces.
<adrianj> The stroke adjust feature will cause lines < 1 wide to be adjusted to 1 pixel wide but only for image surfaces.

here's the patch:

$ diff -Naur pdf2svg.c.ORIG pdf2svg.c
--- pdf2svg.c.ORIG      2008-02-01 10:28:35.000000000 -0800
+++ pdf2svg.c   2011-11-26 03:56:15.000000000 -0800
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
     drawcontext = cairo_create(surface);
 
     // Render the PDF file into the SVG file
-    poppler_page_render(page, drawcontext);
+    poppler_page_render_for_printing(page, drawcontext);
     cairo_show_page(drawcontext);
 
     // Close the SVG file

[wagle@…]

PS. I tested my patch, and it now works as before (6-9 months ago).

[wagle@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please remember to use WikiFormatting.

Has this already been reported to the developers of pdf2svg?

[wagle@…]

Please remember to use WikiFormatting.

Thanks! (The usual thing is to prevent me from editing a submitted bug, and I saw no way to edit it once I saw it was badly formatted.)

Has this already been reported to the developers of pdf2svg?

I asked him about it two weeks ago, and got no response.

priority changed from High to Normal

I rated it high because I was dead in the water without the fix (and others would be), and its trivial to fix once you know what to do. But ok.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

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