[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #2964: pstops does not detect optionsetting in the Setup section

[Michael R Sweet]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Lars Uebernickel wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 08:58 -0700, Michael Sweet wrote:
>>
>>> [STR Closed w/o Resolution]
>>>
>>> This will not be fixed, and pstops is behaving as designed.
>>>
>>> If you have a file that already contains the printer-specific commands in
>>> it, use the "raw" option when printing.
>>>
>>> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2964
>>> Version: 1.3.8
>>> Fix Version: Will Not Fix
>>
>> The options are embedded by CUPS's Windows driver. Shouldn't that driver
>> insert the options into the Job Ticket instead if pstops does not detect
>> options which were already inserted into the file?
>>
> 
> That is only accomplished by using the modified PPDs which are
> provided by cupsaddsmb.
> 
> If you dare to compile the pstops filter from sources, you might
> get a modified pstops.c based on CUPS 1.3.5 from me which inserts
> the PPD-defaults at the beginning of the setup section and therefore
> does not invalidate the rest of the setup.

You'll also see some changes in current 1.3.x and trunk that attempts
to do a better job of supporting embedded setpagedevice commands in
the document setup section - basically we now write the defaults, then
the commands in the file, and then the IncludeFeature commands with
any other commands required by the OrderDependency values from the
PPD file.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer