[cups.general] Output being sent to printer in PS formatinstead of raster

[Helge Blischke]

ulrich.lauther at t-online.de wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:56:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>>level 2 instead of 3?  Give me a sample cli, like using groff to print a man 
>>page, and I'll see if it works here.
>>
> 
> for those who want to reproduce the problem:
> 
> echo "Hello World" | groff -Tps | lpr
> 
> but caution: needs 5 sheets of paper on my Brother_DCP-7010_USB_1.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 	-ulrich
> 

Though I have not such beast of printer to test here, I suspect
at least part of the issue is due to the fact that the PostScript
job created by groff lacks the setup section, i.e. the stuff between
(and inlcuding) the comment lines
	%%BeginSetup
and
	%%EndSetup
..
It is these lines that trigger the pstops filter to insert
defaults and options from the PPD and the command line.
Thus, anong other things, the page size is left undefined.
Maybe that is the reason for the failure.

Helge

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