[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #1181: Formatting issue with PDF conversion

[Helge Blischke]

Daniel Kasak wrote:
> 
> [STR New]
> 
> I'm attaching a *very* simple PDF document that displays perfectly in all
> PDF readers I've tried ( gpdf, xpdf, acrobat reader 7 for windows and
> linux ). When printed from gpdf, there are formatting issues.
> 
> Open the PDF attached in gpdf. Examine the group footers, for example the
> 1st one says "Total sales in January 2005: 21". Note how gpdf correctly
> renders the 1st column of the footer ( Total sales in January 2005: )
> right-aligned, hard against the 2nd column ( 21 ).
> 
> Now print the report ( 1 page is fine ... the problem exists on all pages
> ). The 1st column of the footer extends into the 2nd column. The problem
> is even more pronounced on the last page, where the 1st column of the
> grand total footer extends *way* into the 2nd column.
> 
> Printer setup:
> 
> All printers shared from a CUPS server via IPP browsing. I've tried a
> Ricoh AP3200 and an HP 4500C - printing to either results in exactly the
> same problem. I can provide ppd files of both if necessary.
> 
> I have checked against Acrobat 7 under Windows 2000, printing to the above
> 2 printers ( also shared via IPP ... ie no Samba in between ... and using
> the same ppd ). Acrobat both displays and prints the PDF perfectly.
> 
> Acrobat for Windows and Linux print the file perfectly. I'm told that gpdf
> doesn't alter the document at all, and simply passes it to the printing
> system ( which converts it to postscript ), and that the reason why
> Acrobat prints correctly is that it's doing the PDF ==> postscript
> conversion internally, and then sending the postscript job to the printer.
> 
> I stumbled across this bug while working on a project of mine:
> PDF::ReportWriter - which produced the attached PDF. I can produce more (
> and simpler ones ) if required.
> 
> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1181
> Version: 1.1.23
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                          Name: formatting error when printing.pdf
>    formatting error when printing.pdf    Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf)
>                                      Encoding: BASE64

Does it print OK if your print the PDF directly to your CUPS managed
printer using the lp or lpr
command line utility? If yes, it is an issue concerning only gpdf. IIRC,
gpdf uses quite outdated
components of xpdf.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
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