Bug in alternate pstops?

[Helge Blischke]

Christoph Litauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using cups 1.1.23 with the alternate pstops filter. There seems to
> be a bug, when printing webpages with Mozilla that contain brackets in
> the document title. The page I printed contained brackets in the
> document title. Mozillas postscript code is
> http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~litauer/bracket1.ps. You can print this (raw)
> code on every postscript printer. If I print to a (cups) postscript
> printer, printing fails with a postscript error, because the /job-name
> variable contains an unescaped opening bracket. The resulting document
> is http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~litauer/bracket2.ps
> 
> The problematic section:
> 
> /CUPS_ENV_OPT
> <<      % Environment variables and command line options
>   /CHARSET (iso-8859-1)
>   /CONTENT_TYPE (application/postscript)
>   /DEVICE_URI (file:/var/tmp/test.out)
>   /LANG (en)
>   /PRINTER (test)
>   /SOFTWARE (CUPS/1.1)
>   /USER (root)
>   /CURRENT_DATE (Wednesday, 24. May 2006 13:28)
>   /NOWDATE (2006-05-24 144)
>   /NOWTIME (13:28:55)
>   /clientname (termserv)
>   /smbpages (11)
>   /job-originating-user-name (litauer)
>   /job-name (eBay: DENON AVC A11XV HIGH-END VERSTÄRKER 20 Mon.Garantie
> (Ar...)
> 
>>>def
> 
> 

Well, the source PS file contained one unpaired opening paranthesis but this
*is* already escaped. The filter escaped it one more, resulting in "\\("
instead of "\(".

I'll post a fixed version until monday. OK?

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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