[cups.general] PS Printer barfs on created PS.

[clemens at dwf.com]

I am running cups-1.1.20-11.10 under Fedora2.

I have a pdf file that I am trying to print.
If let either Acrobat or xpdf generate PS, and then try to print the PS,
I get a PS error (HPLJ4M+) like so

    ERROR: VMerror
    OFFENDING COMMAND: string
    
    STACK:

    (

    )
    /CIDParams
    false
    -null-

and none of the document printed.

If I give the document DIRECTLY to CUPS, it prints, *but very slowly*
grabbing the printer and printing 2 pages (duplex) every 1-1/2minutes.

Im going to assume that CUPS actually knows more about this printer than
the PDF programs do, but
    (1) How can I tell the PDF programs (Acrobat, XPDF) the capabilities
        of this printer?
and (2) why is the CUPS conversion so SLOOOOOOW?


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                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg at dwf.com