maybe OT, but ...

[Helge Blischke]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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.
> 

Know that - the files in question are between 2 and 200 MB only.

Helge


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