ps2ps is adding BS to the end of my jobs...

[Helge Blischke]

Brad Langhorst wrote:
> 
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> > Brad Langhorst wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I'm running jobs from windows clients through cups' pstops to strip
> >> out color information.
> >>
> >>
> >> ...
> >> ehsave restore^M
> >> (%%[LastPage]%%) = ^M
> >> %%EOF^M
> >> ^Duserdict/ESPwl{}bind put
> >>
> >> %%Trailer
> >> %%Pages: 0
> >> %%EOF
> >> ^D
> >>
> >>
> >> note that cups has added a second EOF and ctrl-D
> >> I think it's not correct to add information after a ctrl D
> >>
> >> this is causing my printer to barf...(rightly so i think...)
> >>
> >> what can i do to fix the problem?
> >
> >
> > Stop using Foomatic.
> >
> 
> Sorry to be thick... I don't see where foomatic is involved. Samba
> spools the job to cups which runs pstops and then sends the job along to
> the printer. Is foomatic inside of cups?  Is that just saying use -oraw?
> 
> I can munge pstops.c  at about line 600  with this
> 
>        else if ((!strncmp(line,"%%EOF",5)) || (!strcmp(line, "\004") &&
> len == 1) )
>        {
>          /*do nothing with EOF or ctrl-D */
>        }
>        else if (strncmp(line, "%%Pages:", 8) != 0)
>          pswrite(line, len, stdout);
> 
> which eliminates the first EOF and ctrl-D but does not seem to strip out
> the color info as i want it to - this despite the presence of
> 
> %%BeginFeature: *XRXColor BW
> 
>   <<
>      /DeviceRenderingInfo currentpagedevice 1 index get 1 dict copy
>     dup /VirtualColorDevice <<
>                  /Type 1
>                  /ColorTransform /Gray
>       >> put
>   >> setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
> 
> in the ps file
> 
> Is it not possible to strip the color info from this input by directing
> the output through pstops?
> 
> I hope I'm not hammering a screw...
> 
> brad

Make sure to configure your printer (on the Wondows side) to "optimize for partability"
(the string may be slightly different, depending on the printer driver (the DLLs) you use).

And, please post an URL to a sample file.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
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