[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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