[cups.general] PostScript problem with Xerox Phaser 6280DN

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Dec 31 16:18:06 PST 2009


Jorge Fábregas wrote:

> On Thursday 31 December 2009 14:05:52 Helge Blischke wrote:
>>  Further investigation showed up that AdobeReader on Linux by itself
>>  included  some defaults/options from the printer's PPD, the JobPatchFile
>>  among them, but bracketed with PS code that caused the error.
> 
> Hello Helge,
> 
> Interesting thread. Thanks for the provided help!  I'm a Linux user (using
> Fedora 12) and the latest Adobe Reader (version 9.2) and about 2 weeks ago
> I installed a new printer I got (Xerox Phaser 3250DN) which might be
> similar to the one the OP has and decided to do some tests here with his
> PPD file along with mine.
> 
> This is my ppd that came with the printer:
> http://tinyurl.com/Phaser3250DN-ppd
> 
> I created two new printers using the *file:/* (print-to-file) backend, one
> with my PPD (3250DN) and one with the 6280DN ppd and printed a sample PDF
> with the
> latest Adobe Reader.  Here are the results:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/output-Phaser6280DN
> http://tinyurl.com/output-Phaser3250DN
> 
> As you can see the resulting ps file from my printer looks good.  The
> other file, I get errors when watching it with "gv".
> 
> I know just some basic CUPS and know nothing about the postcript language
> itself so bare with me :)   I wonder...is it really something wrong with
> his PPD file? Or is it Adobe Reader? Or are there some instructions in his
> PPD that Adobe can't handle correctly?
> 
> I'm also wondering when he used the lpr command...did that work because
> pdftops was doing the actual conversion?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Happy New Year to everyone!
> 
> Regards,
> Jorge

Jorge,

it is, in fact, a bug in Adob e Reader. But your printer, the Phaser3250DN, 
is not affected as the PPD of it does not contain a job patch file.

Helge






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