text printing wrapping after 83 characters - RHEL v5.4 - laser printer - postscript drivers

[Charles Kaltwasser]

Found the answer (see Bug 316461 at bugzilla.redhat.com).  Problem is caused by the texttopaps filter in RHEL v5.   Work around is to use the old texttops filter.

Create the file "local.convs" in /etc/cups which contains the following line:
   text/plain         application/postscript   33    texttops

(This is a better solution than modifying the original mime.convs file which will be overwritten if a new version of cups is installed.)

Reload the CUPS server:    /sbin/service cups reload


> RedHat Linux v5.4
> CUPS 1.3.7
> HP LaserJet 4000 N
>
> I'm trying to print text lines with 132 characters of data.
>
> When I change the CPI to greater than 10, the wrap still occurs at 83 characters.  Increasing the margins reduces the characters per line proportionately.
>
> Looks like the CPI scaling occurs after the wrapping function.
>
> Have tried using wrap=false and nowrap=true with no change in the results.
>
> Problem also occurs on Konica-Minolta printers so I suspect the issue is with CUPS on RHEL.
>
> Any suggestions of where to look next?
>
> Lynn Kaltwasser
> Calvert County Government