[cups.general] Printing EPS files?

[Michael R Sweet]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> How should EPS files be printed?  Can they be printed as they are, using
> lp?
> 
> Looking at this bug report:
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431145
> where someone is trying to print an EPS file using CUPS 1.3.5 and it
> isn't working, I'm not quite sure whether:
> 
> * the CUPS pstops filter should add 'showpage' when necessary for EPS
> files; or
> 
> * evince/gv should add the showpage to the EPS file before submitting it
> as a print job; or
> 
> * the EPS is malformed.
> 
> Any ideas?

The EPS is malformed - no %%Pages: or %%Page:, as required by the
EPS spec.  Since we don't know there are pages, we can't process the
document.

FWIW, cupstestdsc detects this error...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer