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cups-filters package

PostScript level2 is always generated with pdftops renderer

Bug #1294370 reported by Alex Korobkin
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Bug Description

I built cups-filters 1.0.44 for Ubuntu 12.04 with pdftops being poppler's pdftops. I'm using it with Ricoh MP C3300 PosrtScript PPD [1], and looking at the code it should call pdftops with -level3 parameter. However, it looks like HP printer detection takes place and -level2 is always generated.

Here is strace output:
[pid 7373] execve("/usr/bin/pdftops", ["pdftops", "-level2", "-noembtt", "-origpagesizes", "-nocenter", "-r", "300", "/tmp/p2.pdf", "-"], [/* 28 vars */] <unfinished ...>

Shouldn't it generate level3 unless the printer is HP laserjet?

1. http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=Postscript-Ricoh&printer=Ricoh-Aficio_MP_C3300&show=1

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Please follow the instructions of the section "CUPS error_log" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems for a print job with which you observe the problem. Do not compress the error_log file when you attach it.

Changed in cups-filters (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Alex Korobkin (korobkin) wrote :

Error log for a sample job.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Problem is a little typo which I have fixed in the upstream BZR repository now, see attachment.

Changed in cups-filters (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Alex Korobkin (korobkin) wrote :

There are two blocks of code with identical condition checking for HP printers in that file, should both be patched?

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Alex Korobkin (korobkin) wrote :

nm, the other one doesn't have this problem.

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)
tags: added: patch
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package cups-filters - 1.0.49-0ubuntu1

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cups-filters (1.0.49-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
     - pdftops: Use Poppler also for Toshiba printers (LP: #998087).
     - pdftops: Fixed typo which always made PostScript level 2 being
       generated when using Poppler's pdftops (LP: #1294370).
 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:58:18 +0100

Changed in cups-filters (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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