printing image to a file

[Nitin Kanaskar]

hello All,

I am running cups 1.2.7 on fedora core 4.
I have a printer set up to print to a
file. It's a generic postscript printer.
I tried to print a jpeg file to /tmp/nitinpdf.
It gave foll. error logs -

D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] argv[0]="pdfprinter"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] argv[1]="151"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] argv[2]="root"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] argv[3]="nt2.jpg"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] argv[4]="1"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] argv[5]="job-uuid=urn:uuid:ac1e4000-0297-34fa-56cf-d255630b4f16"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] argv[6]="/var/spool/cups/d00151-001"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[0]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[1]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[2]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/doc/cups"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[4]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[7]="CUPS_STATEDIR=/var/run/cups"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[8]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[9]="SERVER_ADMIN=root at nvk512.ualr.edu"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[10]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.2.7"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[11]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[12]="TZ=America/Chicago"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[13]="USER=root"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[14]="CUPS_SERVER=localhost"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[15]="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[16]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[17]="CHARSET=utf-8"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[18]="LANG=en_US"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[19]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/pdfprinter.ppd"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[20]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[21]="CONTENT_TYPE=image/jpeg"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[22]="DEVICE_URI=file:/tmp/nitinpdf"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[23]="PRINTER=pdfprinter"
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] envp[24]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=application/vnd.cups-postscript"
I [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/imagetops (PID 3380) for job 151.
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] Discarding unused job-state event...
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] Page = 612x792; 18,36 to 594,756
E [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] Unable to open image file for printing!
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
E [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] PID 3380 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/imagetops) stopped with status 1!
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] [Job 151] File 0 is complete.
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [11/Dec/2006:00:11:35 -0600] Discarding unused job-stopped event...

I am not getting what I am missing here.
Does cups has any issue printing large .jpg, as
this file is 6Mb.
Anybody has any idea as to what is wrong?

Regards,
Nitin