potential pstops (alternate) bug?

[Christoph Litauer]

Hi,

I am running cups 1.1.23 using Helge Blischkes alternate pstops filter. 
 From time to time we have problems printing documents where the 
unfiltered (spooled) document could be printed but the filtered not.
Most of the times this happens with documents containing images.

Now I tracked this down a little bit:
I have a (large) pdf document printed with acrobat reader under windows 
xp. The spooled data is printable, the output of pstops is not.

The original (spooled) postscript code contains lines like

(..........................................\^M.) show^M

These lines are converted to

(..........................................\
..) show

As you can see, the carriage return character appearing in the middle of 
a line has been converted to a newline. I think this is the reason why 
documents containing pictures (binary data perhaps containing ^M's) are 
unprintable after filtering.

What am I doing wrong? Is it really a bug?

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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