[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #3530: Cups 1.4 on Ubuntu 9.10,auto configuration changes default choice "A4" to "a4"

[Till Kamppeter]

CUPS supports libpaper natively already from version 1.1 on. libpaper 
delivers page sizes always all-lowercase, and CUPS seems to need them 
case-sensitively matching with what is written in the PPD files.

Now I have a question: Do option and choice names have to match 
case-sensitively with the names in the PPD? Do the Adobe specs allow an 
option with different choices like "a4" and "A4"? If option and choice 
names are case-insensitive ("lpr -o pagesize=a3 file" would print the 
file on A3 paper) then CUPS would need to case-insensitively match the 
libpaper setting with the choices of the PPD file and select the 
appropriate choice from the PPD (here "A4").

If the PPD specs allow the definition of different paper sizes, one 
named "a4" and the other named "A4" then we have really a bug in 
libpaper as then libpaper must deliver the page size names as "A4", 
"Letter", ... as "a4" and "letter" are (not yet standardized) different 
sizes.

    Till


On 03/16/2010 03:38 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
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> Nope, it is libpaper giving us the wrong size. Please report this problem
> to the Ubuntu folks...
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> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3530
> Version: 1.4.1
> Fix Version: Third-party
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