ANN: alternate pdftops filter 1.10

Jeff Chandler chandler.jeffrey at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 07:55:05 PDT 2006


Helge,

Thanks for the addition.  When I use the new pdftops.pl filter, PDF documents do not print.  The error_log shows the following:

D [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] [Job 31] envp[24]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=application/vnd.cups-postscript"
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: status_pipes = [ 10 11 ]
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: filter="/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.pl"
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: filterfds[0]=[ 12 13 ]
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] cupsdStartProcess("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.pl", 0x91f0b50, 0xbffec6e8, -1, 13, 11)
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: Closing filter pipes for slot 1 [ -1 -1 ]...
I [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.pl (PID 28030) for job 31.
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: print_pipes = [ 14 15 ]
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: filter="/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops"
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: filterfds[1]=[ 14 15 ]
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] cupsdStartProcess("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops", 0x91f0b50, 0xbffec6e8, 12, 15, 11)
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: Closing filter pipes for slot 0 [ 12 13 ]...
I [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 28031) for job 31.
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: backend="/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket"
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: filterfds[0] = [ -1 -1 ]
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] cupsdStartProcess("/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket", 0x91f0b50, 0xbffec6e8, 14, -1, 11)
I [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 28032) for job 31.
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: Closing print pipes [ 14 15 ]...
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: Closing back pipes [ 8 9 ]...
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: Closing status output pipe 11...
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: Closing filter pipes for slot 0 [ -1 -1 ]...
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] start_job: Adding fd 10 to InputSet...
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] cupsdAddEvent(event=job-state, dest=0x91b55c0(HP_9500_Alpha_printer), job=0x91f12a8(31), text="Job #%d started.", ...)
D [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] Discarding unused job-state event...
D [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: Adding fd 6 to OutputSet...
d [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] process_children()
E [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] PID 28030 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.pl) stopped with status 22!
D [29/Sep/2006:10:11:11 -0400] [Job 31] /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.pl: No such file or directory


PDFs have successfully printed with the first version of pdftops.pl, and I did not change the location of the file.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jeff




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