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

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Feb 22 16:45:28 PST 2008


Till Kamppeter wrote:
> ...
> So to fix this problem we have the following possibilities:
> 
> 1. Replace poppler-utils by xpdf-utils.
> 2. Patch poppler-utils with the "-cfg" functionality taken from xpdf-utils
> 3. Use a Ghostscript-based PDF filter. Note here that the script [1] 
> needs some improvement to support the PDF-filter-related CUPS options
> 4. Return to CUPS' original PDF filter (needs more space on distribution 
> CDs and requires more security updates as it duplicates XPDF/Poppler code)

5. Use the CUPS 1.4 PDF filter, which wraps either the Xpdf or
    Poppler pdftops commands.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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