[cups.development] ppd pageSize weirdness

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Aug 2 08:34:50 PDT 2010


Can you post a URL to your PPD file?

On Aug 2, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Alex Cohen wrote:

> I'm using ppdOpenFile to get a pointer to a ppd_t, then i'm iterating over the ppd_size_t's using ppd->num_sizes. Then i'm accessing the ppd_size_t's width and length. The values I get back are always -1610443520.000000. The version of cups is 1.4.4.
> 
> Here are some relevant ( i think ) parts of the PPD file:
> 
> *PageSize Letter/Letter: "
> 
> 	<</PageSize [612 792] /ImagingBBox null>> setpagedevice"
> *End
> 
> *PageSize Legal/Legal: "
> 
> 	<</PageSize [612 1008] /ImagingBBox null>> setpagedevice"
> *End
> 
> thx
> AC
> 
>> AC
>> 
>> What do you mean by "all wrong"?  What exactly are you seeing?  Please
>> include the relevant portion of your PPD, your invocation of ppdPageSize()
>> and what version of CUPS you are using.
>> 
>> -Chad
>> 
>> On 8/2/10 10:24 AM, "Alex Cohen" <naftaly at me.com> thusly spake:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm using the ppd functions to parse a PPD file. Everything seems to parse ok
>>> except for PageSizes, all of the float values that specify the dimensions come
>>> as all wrong. Has anyone seen anything similar to this? Is this a know bug?
>>> 
>>> thx
>>> 
>>> AC
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>> 
>> Chad Hulbert
>> Software Engineer
>> Xerox Corporation
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>> 
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>> 
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