Large cups systems?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Seth Galitzer wrote:
> I stand corrected.  I got a tarball (binary) direct from Adobe to
> install it.  Get this:
> Linux installed version: 8.1.1
> Windows installed version: 8.1.0

Interesting...

> I can print my test file from Linux (PS v2/3) and get no errors.  When I
> print the same test file from Windows (PS v2/3), KID3 dies with status 3
> and the job gets stopped.
> 
> Header from spool file from linux (Acrobat 8.1.1):
> %!PS-Adobe-3.1
> %ADO_DSC_Encoding: MacOS Roman
> %%Title: 2643.pdf
> %%Creator: Adobe Acrobat 8.0
> %%For: sgsax
> %%CreationDate: 10/18/07, 11:47:37
> %%BoundingBox: 36 14 576 778
> %%HiResBoundingBox: 36.3421 14.4001 575.6580 777.6000
> %%CropBox: 36.3421 14.4001 575.6580 777.6000
> %%LanguageLevel: 2
> %%DocumentNeededResources: (atend)
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
> %%DocumentNeededFeatures: (atend)
> %%DocumentSuppliedFeatures: (atend)
> %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> %%TargetDevice: (HP LaserJet 4000 Series) (3010.000) 550
> %%Pages: (atend)
> %%DocumentProcessColors: (atend)
> %%DocumentCustomColors: (atend)
> %%EndComments
> 
> Header from spool file from Windows (Acrobat 8.1.0):
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %cupsJobTicket: job-hold-until=no-hold
> %cupsJobTicket: job-sheets=none,none
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%Title: 2643.pdf
> %%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2
> %%CreationDate: 10/18/2007 14:32:58
> %%For: sgsax
> %%BoundingBox: (atend)
> %%Pages: (atend)
> 
> %%PageOrder: (atend)
> %%DocumentNeededResources: (atend)
> %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
> %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
> %%TargetDevice: (HP LaserJet 4000 Series) (3010.000) 550
> %%LanguageLevel: 3
> %%HiResBoundingBox: 8.5000 -25 603.5000 817
> %%CropBox: 8.5000 -25 603.5000 817
> %ADO_BeginApplicationHeaderComments
> %%Creator: Adobe Acrobat 8.0
> %%LanguageLevel: 2
> %ADO_EndApplicationHeaderComments
> %%DocumentProcessColors: (atend)
> %%DocumentCustomColors: (atend)
> %%EndComments

Interesting...

> This is with both copies freshly installed and fully updated.  Seems the
> Linux version has a minor revision bump over the Windows version, and is
> using a slightly newer(?) version of PS.

No, the '%!PS-Adobe-3.0' doesn't describe the PostScript version. It
describes the version of DSC (Document Structuring Convention) used
in the file.

There is no PS-Version specified beyond "Language Level 3".

But still.... interesting.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Structuring_Conventions
   http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/5001.DSC_Spec.pdf


> Coincidence?  How ya like them
> apples?  Speaking of apples, I have yet to test from a Mac, but the
> download version on the Adobe website appears to be 8.1.0, like the
> Windows version.  Of course that may or may not mean anything.
> 
> Note, 7.x versions of Acrobat (both Linux and Windows) don't seem to
> cause errors, though they still report %!PS-Adobe-3.0 in their spool
> file headers.  So there must be something else wonky in the body of the
> file that is throwing off the renderer.  Of course, that's just a WAG.
> 
> Time to start a new thread here, maybe in bugs or development?  Should I
> start a bug report?

Nah, not (yet). I don't think it is a CUPS bug.

But you should try and find out a bit more about the differences in the
two file bodies.

I'd start like this:

*  grep for "^%%" and create extracts with these lines for each file.
*  this will give you all the comments with the DSC comments (and hopefully
   not too much more)
*  then try if "sdiff -sbB file1 file2" gives any clue what changes in the
   document structure they made.
*  if you don't find anything, look into the main bodies around the %% comment
   spots, what differences in PS code you can spot.

Maybe that narrows it down a bit more.

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Kurt Pfeifle
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