[cups.general] MacOSX landscape problems with pdftops

Paul Ortman portman at goshen.edu
Tue Jan 3 08:52:22 PST 2006


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Version info:
  cups = Gentoo 1.1.23-r4
  xpdf = Gentoo 3.01-r3

Setup:
  MacOSX clients use CUPS' auto discovery to get the list of printers
  and download the ppd files.  No real custom configuration is done on
  the OS X boxes.  The CUPS server is a Gentoo linux box that spools to
  many different printers.

Synopsis:
  When attempting to print from nearly any application on OS X (Tiger),
  everything except explicit landscape printing seems to work quite
  well.  The "Preview" program shows a landscape print job, but when
  printed it is truncated on the right side and seems to be the very
  same problem as reported in [1].  The only program which seems to
  print the test PDF correctly is Adobe Acrobat 7.0; it seems to have no
  problem dictating landscape printing.

  Following the directions Helge gave in [2], I grabbed the two spool
  files from the Gentoo CUPS server, one [3] printed from the "Preview"
  program, and the other [4] printed from Acrobat 7.  The original test
  pdf is available at [5].

  Obviously, [3] is a PDF v1.3 and [4] is a PS 3.0 document.  It appears
  to me that my version of CUPS already comes with the "alternate
  pdftops" perl script that acts as a wrapper around xpdf (as described
  in [6], which is the best information/workaround I was able to find on
  the lists.

  Is there some configuration on the MacOSX clients that I could do to
  force them to decode all files to PS 3.0 instead of PDF before sending
  them over to the CUPS server?  Even better would be a fix I can put on
  the server side which would make all the problems disappear.

  Thanks in advance, and let me know if there is any other useful info I
  can provide.


[1] http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general+v:20565
[2] http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general+v:20600
[3] http://www.goshen.edu/~portman/Landscape_bug/landscape_from_preview.pdf
[4] http://www.goshen.edu/~portman/Landscape_bug/landscape_from_reader.pdf
[5] http://www.goshen.edu/~portman/Landscape_bug/landscape_dash.pdf
[6] http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general+v:20698

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