[cups.general] Problems printing PDF files through cups.

[Kurt Pfeifle]

OK, so I now looked up the first two posts of your exchange after I
could not attend any more to this topic, and found your link to the
example PDF.

I ran the filter manually like this (on *my* system, which uses the
original CUPS-style pdftops):

    /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops \
                                 "1" \
                                 "" \
                                 "1" \
                                 "fitplot=true PageSize=Letter" \
                                 e002379200.pdf \
                               | tee pdftopsfiltered-fitplotted-lettersized.ps

I'll mail you the result in private mail. It looks perfect to me.

I noticed that you wanted to apply "landscape" to your options. In
gneral, this is not a good idea for PDF printing. It will just rotate
the image by 90 degree, but it will not rotate the medium. Normally,
"fitplot" does alread take care of fitting the image as good as you
can get it. Adding "landscape" to the options will just destroy your
likely intention of what you want to see on the printout.


Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Gerald Britton wrote:
>> OK -- I'll need a bit of help.  I tried:
>>
>> $CUPS_SERVERROOT='/etc/cups/' /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.new my.pdf
> 
> 
> Unless the '$' above is coming from your prompt, this is the wrong way
> to set the environment variable on the commandline....
> 
> And the command itself - you should call it like adviced by this output
> (occurs when running the filter without any arguments):
> 
>   kurt at lx50:~> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
>   Usage: pdftops job user title copies options [filename]
> 
> This translates to (for example):
> 
>   /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops "1" "dummy" "dummy" "1" "dummy" my.pdf
>   /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops "1" "" "" "1" "" my.pdf
> 
> And with some environment variables set (no '$' please!):
> 
>   CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups/ \
>   PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/yourprintername.ppd \
>         /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops "911" "gerald" "testing pdf printing" "1" "dummy" /path/to.pdf \
>       | /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops  "911" "gerald" "testing pdf printing" "1" "dummy" \
>       | tee /tmp/filtered_output-to_be_sent_to-helge.ps
> 
> However, since you want to see results for "fitplot" and some specific
> media size (I don't remember which), you'll want to set these options
> on the commandline in ${5} (and you likely don't need CUPS_SERVERROOT
> set in your use case -- but PPD for sure!):
> 
>   PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/yourprintername.ppd \
>         /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops "1" "gerald" "pdftest" "1" "fitplot=true PageSize=Letter" my.pdf \
>       | /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops  "1" "gerald" "pdftest" "1" "fitplot=true PageSize=Letter" \
>       | tee /tmp/filtered_output-to_be_sent_to-helge.ps
> 
> For a first quick look, you can also pipe it into a PostScript viewer:
> 
>   PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/yourprintername.ppd \
>         /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops "1" "dummy" "dummy" "1" "fitplot=true PageSize=Letter" my.pdf \
>       | /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops  "1" "dummy" "dummy" "1" "fitplot=true PageSize=Letter" \
>       | gv -
> 
> 
> 
> BTW, here is the list of *all* env params proviced cupsd for all running
> filters and backends to see and pick up if they need to:
> 
> CUPS_CACHEDIR
> CUPS_DATADIR
> CUPS_DOCROOT
> CUPS_FONTPATH
> CUPS_REQUESTROOT
> CUPS_SERVERBIN
> CUPS_SERVERROOT
> CUPS_STATEDIR
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> LD_PRELOAD
> PATH
> SERVER_ADMIN
> SOFTWARE
> TMPDIR
> USER
> CUPS_SERVER
> CUPS_ENCRYPTION
> IPP_PORT
> CHARSET
> LANG
> PPD
> RIP_MAX_CACHE
> CONTENT_TYPE
> DEVICE_URI
> PRINTER
> FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
> 
> 



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