paper size selection

[chris epicier]

Hi again

Regarding large format printing and papersize selction, I compaired the ppd's of the following ppds taken from Suse 10.2, as per end of sept 07:

HP-DesignJet_500ps-dnj650c.ppd
...
*CustomPageSize True: "pop pop pop
<</PageSize [ 5 -2 roll ] /ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*End
*ParamCustomPageSize Width: 1 points 36 100000
*ParamCustomPageSize Height: 2 points 36 100000
*ParamCustomPageSize Orientation: 3 int 0 0
*ParamCustomPageSize WidthOffset: 4 points 0 0
*ParamCustomPageSize HeightOffset: 5 points 0 0
...

stp-pcl-desnj-2500.5.0.ppd
...
*CustomPageSize True: "pop pop pop <</PageSize[5 -2 roll]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*ParamCustomPageSize Width:        1 points 594 2592
*ParamCustomPageSize Height:       2 points 419 129600
*ParamCustomPageSize WidthOffset:  3 points 0 0
*ParamCustomPageSize HeightOffset: 4 points 0 0
*ParamCustomPageSize Orientation:  5 int 0 0
...

There are two differences:
1. line feed after pop pop pop
2. linefeed and *End after null>>setpagedevice"

When I plot I get this in error_log:
 GhostScript extra search path ('GS_LIB'): /usr/share/cups/fonts
 Pondering option 'media=custom.840x594mm'
 Unknown "media" component: "custom.840x594mm".
...
 Found: %%BeginFeature: *CustomPageSize True
 Unknown option CustomPageSize=True found in the job

later:
 renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAU
SE -r300x300 -sDEVICE=dnj650c -r600x600 -dBitsPerPixel=3 -sOutputFile=- -
 foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-sstdout=%stderr' '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOID
SAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-r300x300' '-sDEVICE=dnj650c' '-r600x600' '-dBitsPerPixel=3' '-sOutputFile
=%stdout' '-'
 /undefined in --get--
 Operand stack:
 --dict:3/3(L)--   --nostringval--   --dict:3/3(L)--   --dict:50
/50(ro)(L)--   --dict:8/53(L)--   --dict:7/9(L)--   --dict:3/4(ro)(L)--   MediaWeight   --dict:8/53(L)--
   MediaWeight
 Execution stack:
 %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1
%stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_po
p   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval-
-   1   4   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --dict:7/9(L)--   --nostringval--   16
%dict_continue   --nostringval--
 Dictionary stack:
 --dict:1142/3371(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:109/200(L
)--   --dict:63/75(L)--
 Current allocation mode is local
 ESP Ghostscript 8.15.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
...

I guess that was it.

any help?

greets chris