[cups.general] Printing PDF files with CUPS and lp command

[Gerald Britton]

This is primarily for Kurt and Helge:

On a newly installed ubuntu feisty 7.04, I did the following:

$ /usr/bin/pdftops -v
pdftops version 3.00
Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
$/usr/bin/pdftops my.pdf /tmp/pdftops.out
$lp -o raw /tmp/pdftops.out

Result: output correctly scaled and printed automatically!

$/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops 1 'me' 'me' 1 '' /tmp/pdftops.out >/tmp/pstops.out
$lp -o raw /tmp/pstops.out

Result: output correctly scaled and printed automatically!

lp my.pdf

Result:  Printer prompted me for paper size A4.  Results not scaled to
fit the page

The log (loglevel info) for the job is:

I [03/Oct/2007:10:49:34 -0400] Adding start banner page "none" to job 10.
I [03/Oct/2007:10:49:37 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 10.
I [03/Oct/2007:10:49:37 -0400] Job 10 queued on
"hp_LaserJet_9040_MFP_10.18.16.253" by "jerryb1".
I [03/Oct/2007:10:49:40 -0400] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 5452) for job 10.
I [03/Oct/2007:10:49:40 -0400] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 5454) for job 10.
I [03/Oct/2007:10:49:40 -0400] Started backend
/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 5455) for job 10.
E [03/Oct/2007:10:49:43 -0400] [Job 10] pdftops-options: -cfg
/etc/cups/pdftops.conf


So, it seems that the pdftops filter in /usr/lib/cups/filters may be
the culprit here.  Is it possible to disable it somehow so only the
binary pdftops runs?