coniguration of pdftops

[Franz Pfoertsch]

Helge Blischke wrote:

> Franz Pfoertsch wrote:
>> Thanks for help Helge,
>> 
>> I took your pdftops.conf and but it into /etc/cups/.
>> restarted the cupsd and send a A5 PDF-printjob to the
>> printer.
>> at the cups error log
>> ---8<----
>> I [08/Mar/2007:19:08:10 +0100] Started filter
>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 27874) for job 135.
>> I [08/Mar/2007:19:08:10 +0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops
>> (PID 27875) for job 135.
>> I [08/Mar/2007:19:08:10 +0100] Started backend
>> /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 27876) for job 135.
>> E [08/Mar/2007:19:08:10 +0100] [Job 135]
>> pdftops-options: -cfg /etc/cups/pdftops.conf
>> ---8<----
>> 
>> but the printer did not ask about a different papersize.
>> 
>> What is wrong?
>> 
>> regards
>> Franz
> 
> pdtops implicitely sets <</Policies <</PageSize 3>> >> setpagedevice
> (though syntactically slightly different). That instructs the
> PS interpreter to use the nearest available media size the logical page
> will fit in and shrink the logical page if needed.
> 
> I don't know of an option to modify this behaviour. If it is vital to you,
> I'd suggest to file a change request to the author of xpdf.
> 
> Helge
> 
> 
Hello 

i tried it via commandline using pdftops from xpdf and it worked.


 /usr/bin/pdftops  -paper match abc.pdf abc.match.ps
 /usr/bin/pdftops               abc.pdf abc.nomatch.ps

the difference inside of the ps files is:
5,6c5,6
< %%DocumentMedia: plain 596 420 0 () ()
< %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 420
---
> %%DocumentMedia: plain 612 792 0 () ()
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
2357c2357
< 596 420 false pdfSetup
---
> 612 792 false pdfSetup
2362a2363
> 8 186 translate

when I try to do the same with pdftops from cups
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops 1 2 3 4 5 abc.pdf >abc.ps
 modify the /etc/cups/pdftops.conf to psPaperSize match
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops 1 2 3 4 5 abc.pdf >abc_match.ps

when I do a diff abc.ps abc_match.ps there is no difference.

I am using cups 1.1.20, is there a known problem?

regards
Franz