maybe OT, but ...

[Michael Sweet]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Helge Blischke wrote:
>>
>>> Today I encountered a weird thing:
>>>
>>> printing the same job (consisting of pages of scanned images, the data
>>> runlength and ascii85 encoded) from an intel based box (both Linux and
>>> UnixWare) prints OK, but when printing from a sparc-solaris box 
>>> (Solaris 9)
>>> produces weird PostScript errors just after the first or 3rd image.
>>>
>>> The issue is independent of the data transfer protocol used - I tested
>>> IPP, AppSocket, and FTP.
>>>
>>> Has enybody encountered similar errors?
>>
>>
>> Not here.
>>
>> Can you run the pstops filter manually on each system and diff the
>> output?
>>
> 
> Well, forget my last reply - I just compared/printed only the first pages
> which *where* (and still *are*) identical. The differences occur later on.
> It is obviously a matter of the pages array in the pstops filter (remember,
> I'm still using CUPS 1.1). I suspect there is some quirk with the large 
> file
> support on Solaris - I'll have to compile in a couple or diagnostic 
> messages,
> and see what happens.

Keep in mind that CUPS 1.1.x does *not* support print files larger
than 2GB - that requires CUPS 1.2.

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