[poppler] qt4: arthur backend: Page.renderToPainter renders very wide lines

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Hi all,

I am using poppler-qt4 via a Python binding[1] (created by me) and try to use 
the arthur backend and renderToPainter (esp. to print a Poppler.Document.)

[1] http://code.google.com/p/python-poppler-qt4/

I found that some PDF documents, most notably PDF created by LilyPond[2] a 
music sheet engraving program, display very thick lines. Both images were 
generated by Page.renderToImage, but the right one using the Arthur 
renderbackend. Page.renderToPainter() yields the same results.

In the attached PNG snapshots from both rendering results are visible from the 
same part of a LilyPond-generated PDF document. Try e.g. a LilyPond pdf such 
as [2].

[2] http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl/files/mouvement.pdf

The default backend of Poppler renders LilyPond-generated documents just fine. 
But I would really like to paint without generating a raster image first. As 
the app I'm developing is a LilyPond editor (the upcoming 2.0, cross-platform 
version of Frescobaldi), I'd very much like to find out how to print those 
PDFs nicely via QPrinter! (sending through lpr is not really cross-platform.)

With best regards,
Wilbert Berendsen

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http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl/
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