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

[Gerald Britton]

Thanks Kurt,  I think you may be on to something

On 9/30/07, Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> wrote:
> Gerald Britton wrote:
> > I've tried both the old pdftops (that came with my cups distro)
>
> You are wrong here.
>
> What CUPS ships and shipped in the past was *never* a Perl script.
> When you have a Perl script, it is because your distro has changed
> what CUPS itself provides. When your "old pdftops" also is a Perl
> script, it is only because that change was made earlier than the
> date your old pdftops file carries.
>
> As I proofed to you by doing the manual conversion using the origi-
> nal CUPS pdftops filter, this bug does not appear here.
>
> So you need to complain to your distro (or the Perl script develo-
> per) about that bug. Not to CUPS.
>
> > and
> > the new one that Helge pointed me to.  Both are perl scripts as it
> > turns out.
>
> My CUPS-provided pdftops binary filter works perfectly for this use
> case.
>
>
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