[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #2401: Too long title values resultinvalid PostScript

[Helge Blischke]

Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On May 29 09:08 Michael Sweet wrote (shortened):
> 
>>I don't see a reason to "fix" this; printing still works, you just see a
>>side-effect of the banner templates...
> 
> 
> Does printng really work in any case?
> Couldn't the too long PostScript line in the banner page
> let a PostScript printer fail?
> 
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner

As long as the string is syntactically correct (with respect to
the PostScript language) you need to do quite an effort
to make a PS interpreter fail: the maximum length of strings
in PostScript is 32K bytes.

Helge


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