[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #2972: pstops - coping better with bad postscript created by Acrobat products.

Alan Brown ajb2 at mssl.ucl.ac.uk
Wed Oct 15 09:38:31 PDT 2008


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[STR New]

(Using RHEL5 1.2.4, but this has been an issue with 1.2.* too)

See also STR #2025 - I believe the OP for that bug garbled what he meant
to say.

Adobe's recent Acrobat products are more and more frequently producing bad
postscript (no bounding boxes among other things) which cause various
printer postscript interpreters to crash or to produce random garbage on
the printout.

HP printers are particularly susceptable to this problem (The infamous
49.c201 error code which translates as "Bad Postscript headers") due to
deficiencies in their PS handling code.

Is it possible to tweak pstops to cleanup such errors on the way through?

This is rapidly becoming a major issue. The most recent versions of Adobe
reader can reliably produce HP-printer-crashing output on certain
documents no matter which major OS is used (Linux, Windows, Mac) and it's
almost impossible to get people to "use another PDF reader" because of the
way it tightly integrates itself into Firefox/IE, etc.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2972
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