[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #1348: Problem with printing/renderingpostscript from WordPerfect in Mandriva 2006.0

[Helge Blischke]

"Mark A. Davis" wrote:
> 
> [STR New]
> 
> Summary: Problem with rendering postscript from WordPerfect in Ghostscript
> 8.15/CUPS under Mandriva 2006.0
> 
> I noticed that I was unable to print from Linux WordPerfect 8 under
> Mandriva 2006.0. I use a color postscript printer driver in WP, and call
> cups, which calls ghostscript, which then renders to my HP PSC2210
> printer.  Nothing has changed in WP8 for many years and I have
> successfully used the same setup for printing in Mandrake 8 through 10.2.
> 2006.0 is the first time I have had problems.  The version is:
> ghostscript-8.15-21mdk.
> 
> If I print the output to a file, and trying printing that from the command
> line, the results are the same.  I have attached the "wptest.ps" file for
> testing.
> 
> Cups reports the following:
> -----------
> I [06/Nov/2005:20:06:57 -0500] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
> (PID32647) for job 3.
> I [06/Nov/2005:20:06:57 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp
> (PID 32648) for job 3.
> E [06/Nov/2005:20:07:00 -0500] PID 32647 stopped with status 3!
> -----------
> 
> I turned on debugging and have attached that as a file called
> "cupserrors.txt".
> 
> To eliminate CUPS, I tried using ps2pdf, since that will also use
> ghostscript but not CUPS.  The results are:
> 
> -----------
> [root at kram ~]# ps2pdf test.ps
> Error: /configurationerror in --setpagedevice--
> Additional information: [/DeferredMediaSelection true]
> Operand stack:
>    --nostringval--   --dict:2/2(L)--
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
> 
> %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push
> --nostringval--   2   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> 
> --nostringval--   --dict:1/2(L)--   --nostringval--   1   %dict_continue
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1117/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:82/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: 2
> Current file position is 17554
> ESP Ghostscript 815.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> -----------
> 
> I have verified the problem is not my particular machine by replicating
> the exact same results on another Mandriva 2006.0 machine.  I also
> verified that wptest.ps has no trouble printing, displaying (gv), or
> converting (ps2pdf) on a Mandriva 10.2 machine, ghostscript-8.15-16mdk.
> Note that both are using 8.15, just a different Mandriva build.
> 
> I also tested generating postscript in WordPerfect 8 using its generic
> "Passthru Postscript" driver, and that prints/renders file.  I don't use
> that driver, because it is not color.  Long ago, I took a WP "HP color
> laserjet 5 PS" and used ptr to remove the PJL preambles and created
> "hp2200ps.prs", which has always worked great with modern HP inkjet
> printers + CUPS.  If you select the stock, WP, "HP color laserjet 5 PS" in
> WP, save the PS to a file, and try to print it, you get the exact same
> error as with my modified WP driver.
> 
> This bug was reported on qa.mandriva.com:
> http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19953
> 
> This bug was reported on bugs.ghostscript.com:
> http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688401
> 
> This bug was reported to cups.org based on the request of Till Kamppeter
>  from qa.mandriva.org
> 
> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1348
> Version: 8.15-current
> 
>   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                 Name: wptest.ps
>    wptest.ps    Type: Postscript Document (application/postscript)
>             Encoding: BASE64

I think it is a WP bug. The PS job has 2 severe issues:
(1) It is NOT DSC compliant, which is required by CUPS. The setpagedevice statement here
	%%EndSetup
	<</DeferredMediaSelection true  /PageSize [612 792] >> setpagedevice
	%%Page: 1 1
    should be issued BEFORE the %%EndSetup comment line. 
(2) The logged PostScript error obviously is due to the fact that the selected printer
    neither supports nor ignores the DeferredMediaSelection keyword. Where does WP8 get this
    from?

Helge


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