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poppler package

  1. Bug #293832
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 293832

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Thank you for all the testing. It looks like that Poppler has a bug on PDF-to-PostScript conversion.

Sending a Ghostscript-generated PDF (ps2pdf13) to CUPS produces the problem, as CUPS converts the PDF to PostScript with its pdftops filter, which is Poppler-based. Also the OOo generated PDF fails when converted to PS via Poppler (evince is Poppler-based). The problem does not occur when not using Poppler (acroread).

In Intrepid, with the new PDF-based printing workflow, all jobs get converted to PDF (if not directly sent in PDF format by the app) to pass them through the pdftopdf filter to do the page management (N-up, reverse order, selected pages, manual duplex, ...). After that they have to get converted into the native language of the printer. For PostScript printers this job is done by the cpdftocps CUPS filter. This filter calls CUPS' pdftops filter, so the conversion is done with Poppler.

I will post a GhostScript based replacement for CUPS' pdftops filter for testing soon.