[cups.general] Alternative pdftops filter does not work any more

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 15:04:12 PST 2008


Thank you, so your script is for the XPDF edition of pdftops and not for 
the Poppler edition? Ubuntu Hardy ships the Poppler edition by default.

I have now installed the XPDF edition by doing

sudo apt-get install xpdf-utils

and accepting the removal of poppler-utils. Now CUPS prints PDFs without 
problems.

Helge, do you know the exact differences between the Poppler and the 
XPDF editions of pdftops and the other PDF filters? Are there any 
disadvantages to make the xpdf-utils the default in Ubuntu?

    Till


Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
> Till, I just looked into the xpdf 3.02 sources (that is the version
> currently in use at oursite) and found
> 
> static ArgDesc argDesc[] = {
>   ...
>    {"-cfg",        argString,      cfgFileName,    sizeof(cfgFileName),
>     "configuration file to use in place of .xpdfrc"},
>   ...
> };
> 
> in all of the utilities' main modules, e.g. in
> pdftops.cxx
> 
> The config gile seems to be digested in a module GlobalParams.cc
> 
> Helge
> 
> 





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