[cups.general] Weird behaviour of some HP printers

[Michael R Sweet]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> 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?

No, very weird.

Can you provide diffs (diff -u) between the two versions?

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer