ANN: CUPS for Windows (NT4 driver) bug fix

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Tue Apr 5 09:16:11 PDT 2005


This driver has (among other quirks and whistles) a serious bug
concerning
clipping path construction:
Whenever you print an image which lies "beneath" an image frame (think
of 
image frames a la QuarkXPress or anchored frames a la FrameMaker), and
the area
of the frame is completely contained in the area covered by the image
(or pattern fill
or the like), the clipping path degeneratges and the image (fill) is
missing in the
printout.

I succeeded in hacking a simple (Perl script)  CUPS filter that repairs
the PS job
before it is passed to the pstops filter.

If there is interest, I'll post it under the CUPS links.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
http://www.srz.de




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