Weird behaviour of some HP printers

[Helge Blischke]

When upgrading from CUPS 1.1.19 to CUPS 1.3.5, we encountered quite a
weird thing with some HP printers, especially the HP 4250 series:

When configuring the printer to use the "Fit to Page" option
to "Nearest Size and Scale", it worked as expected in 1.1.19
but failed to scale down the pages in 1.3.5.

A detailed analysis revealed that the only significant difference is the
order of the setpagedevice statements in the output of the
pstops filter (short of line endings and comment lines).

Is there anybody out there who has a reasonable explanation?

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org