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

[ulrich.lauther at t-online.de]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 03:33:47AM -0800, Helge Blischke wrote:
> 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.
> 
I don't see it missing:

%%BeginSetup
%%BeginFeature: *PageSize Default
<< /PageSize [ 595 842 ] /ImagingBBox null >> setpagedevice
%%EndFeature
%%IncludeResource: font Times-Roman
grops begin/DEFS 1 dict def DEFS begin/u{.001 mul}bind def end/RES 72
def/PL 841.89 def/LS false def/ENC0[/asciicircum/asciitilde/Scaron
/Zcaron/scaron/zcaron/Ydieresis/trademark/quotesingle/Euro/.notdef
/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef
/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef
/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/space/exclam/quotedbl/numbersign/dollar/percent
/ampersand/quoteright/parenleft/parenright/asterisk/plus/comma/hyphen
/period/slash/zero/one/two/three/four/five/six/seven/eight/nine/colon
/semicolon/less/equal/greater/question/at/A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I/J/K/L/M/N/O
/P/Q/R/S/T/U/V/W/X/Y/Z/bracketleft/backslash/bracketright/circumflex
/underscore/quoteleft/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j/k/l/m/n/o/p/q/r/s/t/u/v/w/x/y
/z/braceleft/bar/braceright/tilde/.notdef/quotesinglbase/guillemotleft
/guillemotright/bullet/florin/fraction/perthousand/dagger/daggerdbl
/endash/emdash/ff/fi/fl/ffi/ffl/dotlessi/dotlessj/grave/hungarumlaut
/dotaccent/breve/caron/ring/ogonek/quotedblleft/quotedblright/oe/lslash
/quotedblbase/OE/Lslash/.notdef/exclamdown/cent/sterling/currency/yen
/brokenbar/section/dieresis/copyright/ordfeminine/guilsinglleft
/logicalnot/minus/registered/macron/degree/plusminus/twosuperior
/threesuperior/acute/mu/paragraph/periodcentered/cedilla/onesuperior
/ordmasculine/guilsinglright/onequarter/onehalf/threequarters
/questiondown/Agrave/Aacute/Acircumflex/Atilde/Adieresis/Aring/AE
/Ccedilla/Egrave/Eacute/Ecircumflex/Edieresis/Igrave/Iacute/Icircumflex
/Idieresis/Eth/Ntilde/Ograve/Oacute/Ocircumflex/Otilde/Odieresis
/multiply/Oslash/Ugrave/Uacute/Ucircumflex/Udieresis/Yacute/Thorn
/germandbls/agrave/aacute/acircumflex/atilde/adieresis/aring/ae/ccedilla
/egrave/eacute/ecircumflex/edieresis/igrave/iacute/icircumflex/idieresis
/eth/ntilde/ograve/oacute/ocircumflex/otilde/odieresis/divide/oslash
/ugrave/uacute/ucircumflex/udieresis/yacute/thorn/ydieresis]def
/Times-Roman at 0 ENC0/Times-Roman RE
%%EndSetup

Best,

	-ulrich