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

[Gerald Britton]

Helge -- I did not do the ppd mods on the new system.  The ppd is the
out-of-the-box ppd.  I works great with the pdftops binary and the
pstops filter.  The only problem I encounter is when the pdftops
filter (the perl program) is added to the mix. I'm wondering if the
latter should be bypassed completely in favor of the binary, which
seems to do the right thing.

On 10/4/07, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> Gerald Britton wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> Remember the modifications you did on the printer's PPD following
> my suggestions. Did you perform the same modifications on the
> new system?!
>
> Helge
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
>
> H.Blischke at acm.org
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