[cups.bugs] pstops appends 0x0a04, breaking some filters

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri May 20 08:25:54 PDT 2011


pstops generates printer-ready PostScript, including the PostScript end-of-file marker (CTRL-D) as needed.

On May 20, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Justin Brody wrote:

> The pstops filter in cups 1.3.11-r4 appends 0x0A04 to postcript files.
> 
> This causes the file program (versions 5.05 and 5.07) to fail to recognize the file as postscript; which in turns breaks some Brother printer filters.
> 
> I'm not sure whether the real error is in pstops or file, so I'm submitting bug reports for both.
> 
> Thanks!
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