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

[Michael Sweet]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> 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.

.... which also happens to be the maximum length of strings in IPP...

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