Bug in alternate pstops?

[Christoph Litauer]

Helge Blischke schrieb:
> 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
> 

Shure, thanks a lot!

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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