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

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Tue Jan 15 06:34:48 PST 2008


Till Kamppeter wrote:
> See
> 
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/182379
> 
> CUPS does not print PDF files any more due to a problem of the 
> alternative pdftops filter coming with Ubuntu's CUPS package not being 
> able any more to start the pdftops of Poppler. See the error_log 
> attached to the Ubuntu bug report.
> 
> I am using /usr/bin/pdftops filter version 3.00 from poppler-utils 
> 0.6.2-1 on Hardy. The alternate pdftops filter is the current version 1.20.
> 
> Helge, do you know what is happening here? Can you provide a fix?
> 
>    Till
> 

 From the error log attached to the bug report you referred to
it seems that the poppler based pdftops utility does not support
the "-cfg config_file" option and therefore complains.

As a first try to work around this issue, you could change the
line 181 in the current version of the script to
	$cmdopt = "";
and try that.

I did a little bit googling for poppler and pdftops and found some hints
that there (still) might be some issues with the generated PostScript
as well, but as I currently hanven't access to a poppler installation,
I cannot do extensive tests on this issue.

Helge

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